By Park H.B. No. 1449 74R4109 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to credit in the Texas Municipal Retirement System for 1-3 certain public service. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 853, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 853.306 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 853.306. SERVICE FOR COUNTY WITHOUT RETIREMENT SYSTEM. 1-8 (a) The governing body of a participating municipality by 1-9 ordinance may authorize the granting of credit for current service 1-10 in the retirement system for service previously performed by an 1-11 employee of the municipality as an elected or appointed officer of 1-12 a county that did not participate in a retirement system or have 1-13 its own retirement system during the period of the service. 1-14 (b) A member claiming credit under this section shall 1-15 deposit with the retirement system, before the 91st day after the 1-16 effective date of an ordinance adopted under Subsection (a), for 1-17 the total number of months of service claimed under this section, 1-18 an amount equal to the amount of deposits that a member currently 1-19 earning the same compensation from the municipality that the 1-20 member received for the county service is required to make to the 1-21 retirement system. 1-22 (c) If the municipality deposits with the retirement system, 1-23 within the period required under this section for member deposits, 1-24 an amount for the period of service equal to the amount of deposits 2-1 that the municipality is required to make to the retirement system 2-2 for a member currently receiving the same compensation that the 2-3 member claiming the service received for the county service, the 2-4 retirement system shall grant the member current service credit 2-5 under this section. 2-6 (d) A member may not establish more than 72 months of 2-7 credited service under this section. The municipality shall 2-8 require verification of the member's county compensation and period 2-9 of service. 2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.