H.B. No. 795 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to reinstatement, purchase, and transfer of service credit 1-3 between the Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Teacher 1-4 Retirement System of Texas. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 30, Chapter 791, 1-7 Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, a surviving spouse eligible to 1-8 receive an annuity as a result of the death of a member of the 1-9 Employees Retirement System of Texas or the Teacher Retirement 1-10 System of Texas that occurred on or after June 18, 1993, is 1-11 entitled to reinstate, purchase, or transfer eligible service 1-12 credit under Chapter 805, Government Code, as if this Act had been 1-13 in effect at the time of the death. 1-14 (b) The Employees Retirement System of Texas or the Teacher 1-15 Retirement System of Texas, as applicable, shall: 1-16 (1) recompute any annuity for which an annuitant takes 1-17 action authorized by Subsection (a) of this section; 1-18 (2) begin payment of the recomputed annuity with the 1-19 first payment that becomes due after the recomputation; and 1-20 (3) make any necessary transfers of money as provided 1-21 by Chapter 805, Government Code. 1-22 (c) If a lump sum death benefit payment has been made, the 1-23 lump sum must be returned as a condition of this section applying. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.