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. 1-42 * * * * *