By Stiles                                             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 officers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subdivision (9), Section 811.001, Government
    1-6  Code, is amended 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.  Subsection (b), Section 814.104, Government Code,
   1-16  is amended 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.  As of the last day of each fiscal year, the
    2-6  Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage
    2-7  Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Department, the State Board of
    2-8  Pharmacy, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall
    2-9  certify to the retirement system the names of employees and the
   2-10  amount of service each employee performed as a law enforcement
   2-11  officer or custodial officer during that fiscal year.
   2-12        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-13        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.