H.B. No. 1717
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.