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.