By Montford                                            S.B. No. 520
       74R5140 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to eligibility for retirement and benefits under the Texas
    1-3  Municipal Retirement System.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 854.102, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  A member is eligible to retire and receive a service
    1-8  retirement annuity if the member has at least 20 years of credited
    1-9  service in the retirement system performed for one or more
   1-10  municipalities that have adopted a like provision under Section
   1-11  854.202(g).
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 854.202, Government Code, is amended by
   1-13  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-14        (g)  The governing body may authorize a member to retire and
   1-15  receive a service retirement benefit if the member has at least 20
   1-16  years of credited service performed for one or more municipalities
   1-17  that have authorized eligibility under this subsection.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-19        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.