1-1  By:  Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)     H.B. No. 1559
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
    1-3  May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 10, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to payment of member contributions to retirement systems
   1-10  for police officers in certain municipalities.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947
   1-13  (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
   1-14  adding Section 6A to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 6A.   (a)  The governing body of a city to which this
   1-16  Act applies by ordinance or resolution may provide that the city
   1-17  pick up member contributions required by Section 6 of this Act or
   1-18  Section 28, Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, so that the
   1-19  contributions of all members of the Pension System qualify as
   1-20  picked up contributions under Section 414(h)(2) of the Internal
   1-21  Revenue Code of 1986.  If the governing body of a city adopts an
   1-22  ordinance or resolution under this section, the city, the Pension
   1-23  Board, and any other necessary party shall implement the action as
   1-24  soon as is practicable.
   1-25        (b)  Contributions picked up as provided by this section
   1-26  shall be included in the determination of a member's base salary,
   1-27  deposited to the individual account of the member on whose behalf
   1-28  they are made, and treated for all purposes under this Act or
   1-29  Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, in the same manner and  with
   1-30  like effect as if they had been deducted from the salary of and
   1-31  made by the member.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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