By Whitmire                                            S.B. No. 930
       74R6050 CAS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to pension benefits for certain peace officers in certain
    1-3  municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas
    1-7  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  A <person who becomes a> member of the Pension System,
    1-9  other than a member as defined under Section 1, Article 6243g-3,
   1-10  Revised Statutes, <on or after September 1, 1975, and> who has been
   1-11  in the service of the city police department for <the period of>
   1-12  twenty (20) years <may retire on or after July 1, 1993, and> shall
   1-13  be entitled to a retirement pension of an amount equal to two and
   1-14  one-fourth percent (2.25%) of his base salary per month for the
   1-15  first twenty (20) years of service, plus an additional amount equal
   1-16  to two percent (2%) of his base salary per month for each year of
   1-17  service in the police department in excess of twenty (20) years,
   1-18  not to exceed a total pension equal to eighty percent (80%) of base
   1-19  salary, such base salary to be the base salary provided for the
   1-20  classified position in the police department held by the member,
   1-21  provided that if the member has not held the same classified
   1-22  position for three (3) years prior to the date of retirement, the
   1-23  retirement pension shall be based on the average monthly base
   1-24  salary of the member for three (3) years preceding retirement.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Section 11(c), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
    2-2  Legislature, Regular Session, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas
    2-3  Civil Statutes), is repealed.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  Section 11(a), Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th
    2-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas
    2-6  Civil Statutes), as amended by this Act, applies only to payments
    2-7  of pension benefits that become due on or after the effective date
    2-8  of this Act.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.