By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1535
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to allowance of prior credit in a retirement plan for
    1-2  certain police officers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 27, Revised Statutes, is amended to read
    1-5  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 credit shall be allowed for service in another department in
   1-12  the city to any person who transfers from the other department to
   1-13  the police department except for a police officer who was
   1-14  transferred involuntarily from the other city department to the
   1-15  police department.  An employee hired or rehired subsequent to the
   1-16  effective date of this Act shall be covered by the plan described
   1-17  in this article.  No employee may be covered by the plan provisions
   1-18  of both Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article
   1-19  6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and this article.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.