By: Ellis S.B. No. 1535 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to allowance of prior service credit in a retirement plan 1-2 for certain police officers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 27, Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 27. DUAL MEMBERSHIP PROHIBITED. An employee hired 1-7 before the effective date of this Act shall be covered by the plan 1-8 described in Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947 1-9 (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), unless he elects 1-10 to become a member pursuant to Section 26 of this article. No 1-11 prior service credit shall be allowed for service in another 1-12 department in the city to any person who transfers from the other 1-13 department to the police department except for a police officer who 1-14 was transferred involuntarily from the other city department to the 1-15 police department. Additionally, the pension board must approve 1-16 and accept the prior service credit on an individual-by-individual 1-17 basis. The pension board can only approve the credit if the 1-18 transferred police officer pays any and all costs to the pension 1-19 fund incurred by virtue of the allowed prior service credit. The 1-20 costs of the transferred prior service credit must be determined by 1-21 the fund's actuary. An employee hired or rehired subsequent to the 1-22 effective date of this Act shall be covered by the plan described 1-23 in this article. No employee may be covered by the plan provisions 2-1 of both Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article 2-2 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and this article. 2-3 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.