1-1  By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 930
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 1995; March 7, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; May 3, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
    1-6  May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 930                 By:  Whitmire
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to pension benefits for certain peace officers in certain
   1-11  municipalities.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 11, Chapter 76, Acts of
   1-14  the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-15  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
   1-16        (a)  A <person who becomes a> member of the Pension System,
   1-17  including a member as defined under Section 1, Article 6243g-3,
   1-18  Revised Statutes, <on or after September 1, 1975, and> who has been
   1-19  in the service of the city police department for <the period of>
   1-20  twenty (20) years <may retire on or after July 1, 1993, and> shall
   1-21  be entitled to a retirement pension of an amount equal to two and
   1-22  one-fourth percent (2.25%) of his base salary per month for the
   1-23  first twenty (20) years of service, plus an additional amount equal
   1-24  to two percent (2%) of his base salary per month for each year of
   1-25  service in the police department in excess of twenty (20) years,
   1-26  not to exceed a total pension equal to eighty percent (80%) of base
   1-27  salary, such base salary to be the base salary provided for the
   1-28  classified position in the police department held by the member,
   1-29  provided that if the member has not held the same classified
   1-30  position for three (3) years prior to the date of retirement, the
   1-31  retirement pension shall be based on the average monthly base
   1-32  salary of the member for three (3) years preceding retirement.
   1-33        SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 11, Chapter 76, Acts of
   1-34  the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-35  Statutes), is repealed.
   1-36        SECTION 3.  Subsection (a), Section 11, Chapter 76, Acts of
   1-37  the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-38  Statutes), as amended by this Act, applies only to payments of
   1-39  pension benefits that become due on or after the effective date of
   1-40  this Act.
   1-41        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-42        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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