By Hightower                                           H.B. No. 795
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 795:
          By Telford                                         C.S.H.B. No. 795
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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 (b) 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.