1-1  By:  Clemons (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                 H.B. No. 2008
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
    1-4  Affairs; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to credit in the Texas County and District Retirement
    1-9  System for service as a prosecuting attorney.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 843, Government Code, is
   1-12  amended by adding Section 843.602 to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 843.602.  CERTAIN CURRENT SERVICE AS PROSECUTING
   1-14  ATTORNEY.  (a)  The commissioners court of a county that has
   1-15  adopted an order under Section 842.201(b) may by further order
   1-16  authorize the establishment of credit for current service in the
   1-17  retirement system for service performed for the county as a
   1-18  prosecuting attorney before the effective date of the order under
   1-19  Section 842.201(b) by a member whose service in that position had
   1-20  ceased before that date.
   1-21        (b)  A member claiming credit under this section shall
   1-22  deposit with the retirement system, before the 91st day after the
   1-23  effective date of an order adopted under Subsection (a), for the
   1-24  total number of months of service claimed under this section, an
   1-25  amount equal to the amount of deposits that a member earning the
   1-26  same compensation from the county during the same period was
   1-27  required to make to the retirement system.
   1-28        (c)  If the county deposits with the retirement system,
   1-29  within the period required under this section for member deposits,
   1-30  an amount equal to the amount deposited under Subsection (b), the
   1-31  retirement system shall grant the member current service credit
   1-32  under this section.
   1-33        (d)  In this section, "prosecuting attorney" has the meaning
   1-34  assigned by Section 842.106(c).
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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