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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