1-1 By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 1717
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to benefits payable by retirement systems for police
1-10 officers in certain municipalities.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 11(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
1-13 Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-14 is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) A person who became <becomes> a member of the Pension
1-16 System before <on or after> September 1, 1981 <1975>, who did not
1-17 elect before January 1, 1982, to become a member of the plan
1-18 governed by Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, and who has been in
1-19 the service of the city police department for the period of twenty
1-20 (20) years may retire on or after July 1, 1993, and shall be
1-21 entitled to a retirement pension of an amount equal to two and
1-22 one-fourth percent (2.25%) of his base salary per month for the
1-23 first twenty (20) years of service, plus an additional amount equal
1-24 to two percent (2%) of his base salary per month for each year of
1-25 service in the police department in excess of twenty (20) years,
1-26 not to exceed a total pension equal to eighty percent (80%) of base
1-27 salary, such base salary to be the base salary provided for the
1-28 classified position in the police department held by the member,
1-29 provided that if the member has not held the same classified
1-30 position for three (3) years prior to the date of retirement, the
1-31 retirement pension shall be based on the average monthly base
1-32 salary of the member for three (3) years preceding retirement.
1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-39 passage, and it is so enacted.
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