By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2687 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to service on the boards of trustees of retirement systems 1-3 for police officers in certain municipalities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th 1-6 Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), 1-7 is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (a) There is hereby created a Pension Board of the Pension 1-9 System, in which Board there is hereby vested the general 1-10 administration, management, and responsibility for the proper and 1-11 effective operation of the Pension System. The Board shall be 1-12 organized immediately after its members have qualified and taken 1-13 the oath of office and shall serve without compensation. Elected 1-14 members of the Pension Board are entitled to leave from the elected 1-15 member's police department employer to attend to the official 1-16 business of the Pension System. If the city employing the elected 1-17 members of the Pension Board withholds compensation of an elected 1-18 member who is attending to official business of the Pension System, 1-19 the Pension System may elect to adequately compensate the city for 1-20 the loss of service of the elected member. Once the Pension Board 1-21 (by an affirmative vote of at least four Board members) makes this 1-22 election, which amounts shall be remitted from the Fund to the 1-23 city, the city shall pay to the member his regular compensation as 1-24 if no loss of service occurred. 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.