H.B. No. 1810
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to membership on the boards of trustees of retirement
1-3 systems for police officers in certain municipalities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4(b), 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 (b) The Pension Board shall be composed of seven (7) members
1-9 as follows:
1-10 (1) The administrative head of the city, or his
1-11 authorized representative.
1-12 (2) Three (3) employees of the police department
1-13 having membership in the Pension System and elected by the members
1-14 of such police department and system.
1-15 (3) Two (2) retired members receiving pensions from
1-16 the Pension System <legally qualified taxpaying voters of such
1-17 city, residents thereof for the preceding three (3) years>, to be
1-18 chosen by the elected members of the Pension Board and confirmed by
1-19 the Board, being neither employees nor officers of such city.
1-20 (4) The City Treasurer of the city, or the person
1-21 discharging the duties of the City Treasurer.
1-22 The terms of office of the elected members of the Pension
1-23 Board shall be three (3) years, provided, however, that at the
1-24 first election after the effective date of this Act, one such
2-1 elected member shall be elected to a term of one year, one such
2-2 elected member shall be elected to a term of two (2) years; and one
2-3 such elected member shall be elected to a term of three (3) years.
2-4 Thereafter, at an annual election called by the Chief of Police,
2-5 and held during the month of December, one member shall be elected
2-6 to a three-year term. Whenever a vacancy occurs among the three
2-7 (3) elected members of the Pension Board, the Pension Board shall
2-8 appoint a Pension Fund member to serve the balance of the calendar
2-9 year and until the next regularly scheduled election of Board
2-10 members. At that time, the membership of the police department
2-11 shall elect a Pension Fund member to serve for the remainder of the
2-12 term.
2-13 The term of office of appointed members of the Board shall be
2-14 two (2) years, with such appointed members being nominated by the
2-15 elected members of the Board and confirmed by the Board, and having
2-16 terms commencing when the appointed members are qualified.
2-17 The term of office of the Board members statutorily provided
2-18 for, shall be and continue so long as such member holds the
2-19 position defined in this Act for automatic members of such Board.
2-20 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act in the
2-21 qualifications for membership on the boards of trustees of
2-22 retirement systems for police officers in certain municipalities
2-23 applies only to members appointed for terms that begin on or after
2-24 the effective date of this Act. Qualifications for membership on a
2-25 board of trustees for a term that began before the effective date
2-26 of this Act are those provided immediately before the effective
2-27 date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for
3-1 that purpose.
3-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
3-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.