1-1  By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1535
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; May 3, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;
    1-6  May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1535                   By:  Ellis
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to allowance of prior service credit in a retirement plan
   1-11  for certain police officers.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 27, Article 6243g-3, Revised Statutes, is
   1-14  amended to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 27.  DUAL MEMBERSHIP PROHIBITED.  An employee hired
   1-16  before the effective date of this Act shall be covered by the plan
   1-17  described in Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947
   1-18  (Article 6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), unless he elects
   1-19  to become a member pursuant to Section 26 of this article.  No
   1-20  prior service credit shall be allowed for service in another
   1-21  department in the city to any person who transfers from the other
   1-22  department to the police department except for a police officer who
   1-23  was transferred involuntarily from the other city department to the
   1-24  police department.  Additionally, the pension board must approve
   1-25  and accept the prior service credit on an individual-by-individual
   1-26  basis.  The pension board can only approve the credit if the
   1-27  transferred police officer pays any and all costs to the pension
   1-28  fund incurred by virtue of the allowed prior service credit.  The
   1-29  costs of the transferred prior service credit must be determined by
   1-30  the fund's actuary.  An employee hired or rehired subsequent to the
   1-31  effective date of this Act shall be covered by the plan described
   1-32  in this article.  No employee may be covered by the plan provisions
   1-33  of both Chapter 76, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947 (Article
   1-34  6243g-1, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and this article.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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