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.