By Marchant                                           H.B. No. 1149
       74R4410 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to service credit in the Employees Retirement System of
    1-3  Texas for certain service performed for a county.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 813.001, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 813.001.  Types of Creditable Service.  The types of
    1-8  service creditable in the retirement system are membership service,
    1-9  <and> military service, and equivalent membership service.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 813.401, Government Code, is amended to
   1-11  read as follows:
   1-12        Sec. 813.401.  Service Creditable in Elected Class.  Service
   1-13  creditable in the elected class of membership is:
   1-14              (1)  membership service in an office included in that
   1-15  class; <and>
   1-16              (2)  military service established as provided by
   1-17  Subchapter D; and
   1-18              (3)  equivalent membership service specifically made
   1-19  creditable in that class.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  Section 813.404, Government Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 813.404.  Contributions for Service not Previously
   1-23  Established.  For each month of membership, <or> military, or
   1-24  equivalent membership service not previously credited in the
    2-1  retirement system, a member claiming credit in the elected class
    2-2  shall pay a contribution in an amount equal to the greater of:
    2-3              (1)  eight percent of the monthly salary paid to
    2-4  members of the legislature at the time the credit is established;
    2-5  or
    2-6              (2)  six percent of the monthly state salary paid to a
    2-7  person who holds, at the time the credit is established, the office
    2-8  for which credit is sought.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  Subchapter E, Chapter 813, Government Code, is
   2-10  amended by adding Section 813.406 to read as follows:
   2-11        Sec. 813.406.  COUNTY SERVICE.  (a)  A member of the elected
   2-12  class of membership who meets a service requirement provided by
   2-13  Section 814.102 for retirement at an attained age may establish
   2-14  equivalent membership service credit in that class for service
   2-15  performed as an elected officer of a county in this state.
   2-16        (b)  In addition to the contribution required by Section
   2-17  813.404, a member establishing service credit under this section
   2-18  must pay interest computed on the basis of the state fiscal year at
   2-19  an annual rate of 10 percent of the contribution from the time the
   2-20  service was performed to the date of deposit.
   2-21        (c)  A member may not establish more than 24 months of
   2-22  service credit under this section.  Credit may not be established
   2-23  under this section if the same service is credited in another
   2-24  public retirement system.
   2-25        (d)  The retirement system may require members applying for
   2-26  credit under this section to submit any information the system
   2-27  considers necessary to enable it to determine the amount of service
    3-1  or amounts of required contributions.
    3-2        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-8  passage, and it is so enacted.