By Longoria                                           H.B. No. 2384
       74R6727 MJW-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to retirement benefits earned by a spouse after
    1-3  dissolution of a marriage.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Family Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 5.05 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 5.05.  RETIREMENT BENEFITS EARNED BY SPOUSE AFTER
    1-8  DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE.  Retirement benefits earned by a spouse
    1-9  after dissolution of marriage are the separate property of that
   1-10  spouse and are not subject to division by a court rendering an
   1-11  order in the suit to dissolve the marriage.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act is intended to clarify the law in effect
   1-13  before the effective date of this Act and applies to retirement
   1-14  benefits earned by a spouse after dissolution of a marriage without
   1-15  regard to whether the dissolution occurs before, on, or after the
   1-16  effective date of this Act.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.