By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 1717
       74R5472 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to benefits payable by retirement systems for police
    1-3  officers in certain municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
    1-6  Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
    1-7  is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  A person who became <becomes> a member of the Pension
    1-9  System before <on or after> September 1, 1981 <1975>, who did not
   1-10  elect before January 1, 1982, to become a member of the plan
   1-11  governed by Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, and who has been in
   1-12  the service of the city police department for the period of twenty
   1-13  (20) years may retire on or after July 1, 1993, and shall be
   1-14  entitled to a retirement pension of an amount equal to two and
   1-15  one-fourth percent (2.25%) of his base salary per month for the
   1-16  first twenty (20) years of service, plus an additional amount equal
   1-17  to two percent (2%) of his base salary per month for each year of
   1-18  service in the police department in excess of twenty (20) years,
   1-19  not to exceed a total pension equal to eighty percent (80%) of base
   1-20  salary, such base salary to be the base salary provided for the
   1-21  classified position in the police department held by the member,
   1-22  provided that if the member has not held the same classified
   1-23  position for three (3) years prior to the date of retirement, the
   1-24  retirement pension shall be based on the average monthly base
    2-1  salary of the member for three (3) years preceding retirement.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.