By Haywood S.B. No. 1519
74R5162 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for
1-3 military service.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 813.302(b), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A member eligible to establish military service credit
1-8 is one who:
1-9 (1) <does not receive and is not eligible to receive
1-10 federal retirement payments based on 20 years or more of active
1-11 federal military duty or its equivalent;>
1-12 <(2)> has been released from military duty under
1-13 honorable conditions <not dishonorable>; and
1-14 (2) <(3)> has credit in the retirement system for
1-15 membership service performed after the member's date of release
1-16 from active military duty.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.