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.