By Clemons H.B. No. 2008 74R1321 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to credit in the Texas County and District Retirement 1-3 System for service as a prosecuting attorney. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 843, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 843.602 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 843.602. CERTAIN CURRENT SERVICE AS PROSECUTING 1-8 ATTORNEY. (a) The commissioners court of a county that has 1-9 adopted an order under Section 842.201(b) may by further order 1-10 authorize the establishment of credit for current service in the 1-11 retirement system for service performed for the county as a 1-12 prosecuting attorney before the effective date of the order under 1-13 Section 842.201(b) by a member whose service in that position had 1-14 ceased before that date. 1-15 (b) A member claiming credit under this section shall 1-16 deposit with the retirement system, before the 91st day after the 1-17 effective date of an order adopted under Subsection (a), for the 1-18 total number of months of service claimed under this section, an 1-19 amount equal to the amount of deposits that a member earning the 1-20 same compensation from the county during the same period was 1-21 required to make to the retirement system. 1-22 (c) If the county deposits with the retirement system, 1-23 within the period required under this section for member deposits, 1-24 an amount equal to the amount deposited under Subsection (b), the 2-1 retirement system shall grant the member current service credit 2-2 under this section. 2-3 (d) In this section, "prosecuting attorney" has the meaning 2-4 assigned by Section 842.106(c). 2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.