H.B. No. 1559
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to payment of member contributions to retirement systems
    1-3  for police officers in certain municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947
    1-6  (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Section 6A to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 6A.   (a)  The governing body of a city to which this
    1-9  Act applies by ordinance or resolution may provide that the city
   1-10  pick up member contributions required by Section 6 of this Act or
   1-11  Section 28, Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, so that the
   1-12  contributions of all members of the Pension System qualify as
   1-13  picked up contributions under Section 414(h)(2) of the Internal
   1-14  Revenue Code of 1986.  If the governing body of a city adopts an
   1-15  ordinance or resolution under this section, the city, the Pension
   1-16  Board, and any other necessary party shall implement the action as
   1-17  soon as is practicable.
   1-18        (b)  Contributions picked up as provided by this section
   1-19  shall be included in the determination of a member's base salary,
   1-20  deposited to the individual account of the member on whose behalf
   1-21  they are made, and treated for all purposes under this Act or
   1-22  Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, in the same manner and  with
   1-23  like effect as if they had been deducted from the salary of and
   1-24  made by the member.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.