By Turner of Harris                                   H.B. No. 2687
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                                 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        Sec. 4.   (a)  There is hereby created a Pension Board of the
    1-9  Pension 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 4 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.