1-1  By:  Hightower (Senate Sponsor - Turner)               H.B. No. 795
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 8, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 8, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to reinstatement, purchase, and transfer of service credit
    1-9  between the Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Teacher
   1-10  Retirement System of Texas.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  (a)  Notwithstanding Section 30, Chapter 791,
   1-13  Acts of the 73rd Legislature, 1993, a surviving spouse eligible to
   1-14  receive an annuity as a result of the death of a member of the
   1-15  Employees Retirement System of Texas or the Teacher Retirement
   1-16  System of Texas that occurred on or after June 18, 1993, is
   1-17  entitled to reinstate, purchase, or transfer eligible service
   1-18  credit under Chapter 805, Government Code, as if this Act had been
   1-19  in effect at the time of the death.
   1-20        (b)  The Employees Retirement System of Texas or the Teacher
   1-21  Retirement System of Texas, as applicable, shall:
   1-22              (1)  recompute any annuity for which an annuitant takes
   1-23  action authorized by Subsection (a) of this section;
   1-24              (2)  begin payment of the recomputed annuity with the
   1-25  first payment that becomes due after the recomputation; and
   1-26              (3)  make any necessary transfers of money as provided
   1-27  by Chapter 805, Government Code.
   1-28        (c)  If a lump sum death benefit payment has been made, the
   1-29  lump sum must be returned as a condition of this section applying.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-35  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-36  passage, and it is so enacted.
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