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.