74R8522 GCH-F
          By Stiles                                             H.B. No. 2522
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2522:
          By Johnson                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2522
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to participation in benefits from the Employees Retirement
    1-3  System of Texas for certain law enforcement and custodial officers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 811.001(9), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7              (9)  "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the
    1-8  retirement system who has been commissioned as a law enforcement
    1-9  officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic
   1-10  Beverage Commission, the State Purchasing and General Services
   1-11  Commission, Capitol Area Security Force, the State Board of
   1-12  Pharmacy, or the Parks and Wildlife Department and who is
   1-13  recognized as a commissioned law enforcement officer by the
   1-14  Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 814.104(b), Government Code, is amended
   1-16  to read as follows:
   1-17        (b)  A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
   1-18  least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
   1-19  engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
   1-20  Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the State
   1-21  Purchasing and General Services Commission Capitol Area Security
   1-22  Force, the State Board of Pharmacy, or the Parks and Wildlife
   1-23  Department, or as a custodial officer, is eligible to retire and
    2-1  receive a service retirement annuity.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  Section 815.505, Government Code, is amended to
    2-3  read as follows:
    2-4        Sec. 815.505.  Certification of Names of Law Enforcement and
    2-5  Custodial Officers.  Not later than the 12th day of the month
    2-6  following the month in which a person begins or ceases employment
    2-7  as a law enforcement officer or custodial officer, the Public
    2-8  Safety Commission, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the
    2-9  Parks and Wildlife Commission, the State Board of Pharmacy, or the
   2-10  Texas Board of Criminal Justice, as applicable, shall certify to
   2-11  the retirement system, in the manner prescribed by the system, the
   2-12  name of the employee and such other information as the system
   2-13  determines is necessary for the crediting of service and financing
   2-14  of benefits under this subtitle.
   2-15        SECTION 4.  Section 27, Chapter 791, Acts of the 73rd
   2-16  Legislature, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   2-17        Sec. 27.  Before October 1, 1995, the Public Safety
   2-18  Commission, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Parks and
   2-19  Wildlife Commission, the State Board of Pharmacy, and the Texas
   2-20  Board of Criminal Justice shall certify to the Employees Retirement
   2-21  System of Texas, in the manner prescribed by the retirement system,
   2-22  the name of each person employed on September 1, 1995, by the
   2-23  particular agency as a law enforcement officer, as defined by
   2-24  Section 811.001, Government Code, or a custodial officer, as
   2-25  defined by that section, and such other information as the system
    3-1  determines is necessary for the crediting of service and financing
    3-2  of benefits under Subtitle B, Title 8, Government Code.
    3-3        SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    3-4        SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.