By Talton                                             H.B. No. 2738
       74R7714 GCH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to service credit in retirement systems for police
    1-3  officers in certain municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 25B to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 25B.  CREDIT FOR MEMBER TRANSFERRED BY CITY.  (a)  A
    1-8  member covered by the plan provisions of this article who has been
    1-9  transferred by action of a city to which this article applies to a
   1-10  classified position in a police department included in the pension
   1-11  system is entitled to service credit in the pension system for the
   1-12  member's previous service credited under Chapter 358, Acts of the
   1-13  48th Legislature, 1943 (Article 6243g, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-14  Statutes), if the member has not retired under that Act or this
   1-15  article.
   1-16        (b)  If a member applies for service credit under this
   1-17  section, the pension system governed by Chapter 358, Acts of the
   1-18  48th Legislature, 1943 (Article 6243g, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-19  Statutes), to which the city that transferred the employee
   1-20  contributes shall certify to this pension system the dates and
   1-21  amount of the member's service, the amounts of the member's salary
   1-22  during the period of service, and the amounts contributed by the
   1-23  city and the member for the service and shall transfer to this
   1-24  pension system an amount equal to the amounts contributed by the
    2-1  city for the service and the amounts, if any, contributed by the
    2-2  member for the service, unless the member has withdrawn
    2-3  contributions made under that pension system.  A certification and
    2-4  transfer under this subsection cancels the credited service in the
    2-5  pension system governed by Chapter 358, Acts of the 48th
    2-6  Legislature, 1943 (Article 6243g, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
    2-7  If the member withdrew contributions from the member's former
    2-8  pension system, the member must deposit the amount withdrawn to
    2-9  receive service credit under this section.  On payment of the
   2-10  amounts required by this subsection, this pension system shall
   2-11  grant the member credit for the certified amount of service.
   2-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.