By Gray H.B. No. 603 74R1610 MJW-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order to 1-3 clarify or modify a final divorce decree that provides for the 1-4 division of a pension or other retirement benefits. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 3, Family Code, is amended 1-7 by adding Section 3.715 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 3.715. MODIFICATION OF FINAL DECREE BY ISSUANCE OF 1-9 QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER. On the petition of a party to 1-10 a suit for divorce or annulment in which a court has rendered a 1-11 final decree that provides for a division of a beneficial interest 1-12 in a financial plan described by Section 3.633, the court may 1-13 clarify or modify the final decree by rendering a qualified 1-14 domestic relations order as defined by Section 414 of the Internal 1-15 Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 414) for the purpose of 1-16 complying with provisions of the Employee Retirement Income 1-17 Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. Section 1001, et seq.) that apply 1-18 to the property division. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.