By Haywood                                             S.B. No. 857
       74R516 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the establishment of credit in the Employees Retirement
    1-3  System of Texas for certain military service.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 813.301, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  Military service creditable in the retirement system is:
    1-9              (1)  active federal duty as a member of the armed
   1-10  forces of the United States;
   1-11              (2)  service as a member of the Texas National Guard;
   1-12  or
   1-13              (3)  service in any of the reserve components of the
   1-14  armed forces of the United States.
   1-15        (c)  Service is creditable under this section for active
   1-16  federal duty as a member of the armed forces of the United States
   1-17  at the rate of one month of service credit for each month of that
   1-18  service.  Service is creditable under this section for service as a
   1-19  member of the Texas National Guard or service in any of the reserve
   1-20  components of the armed forces of the United States at the rate of
   1-21  one month of service credit for each three months of that service.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 813.505(b), Government Code, is amended
   1-23  to read as follows:
   1-24        (b)  A member claiming credit in the employee class for
    2-1  military service not previously established shall, for each month
    2-2  of the creditable service, pay a contribution in an amount equal to
    2-3  the greater of:
    2-4              (1)  the amount that the member contributed for the
    2-5  first full month of membership service that is after the member's
    2-6  date of release from active military duty and that is credited in
    2-7  the retirement system; or
    2-8              (2)  $18.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.