75R10044 GCH-D                           

         By Puente                                              H.B. No. 209

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 209:

         By Serna                                           C.S.H.B. No. 209

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to monthly benefits for surviving spouses of deceased

 1-3     members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 824.4041(b), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The retirement system shall:

 1-8                 (1)  verify whether a person is eligible to receive

 1-9     benefits under this section;

1-10                 (2)  determine the number of months that the person was

1-11     65 years of age or older and did not receive the monthly survivor

1-12     benefit during the period beginning on the date the person

1-13     remarried, if before August 31, 1980, and ending August 31, 1980,

1-14     and multiply that number by $75;

1-15                 (3)  determine the number of months that the person was

1-16     65 years of age or older and did not receive the monthly survivor

1-17     benefit during the period beginning on the date the person

1-18     remarried or September 1, 1980, whichever date is later, and ending

1-19     on the last day of the month in which the person is verified as

1-20     eligible for benefits under this section, and multiply that number

1-21     by $100;

1-22                 (4)  make payable to the eligible person in a lump sum

1-23     an amount equal to the amount computed under Subdivision (2) plus

1-24     the amount computed under Subdivision (3); and

 2-1                 (5) [(2)]  if the person is eligible, make payments to

 2-2     the person of a monthly benefit in the amount specified in Section

 2-3     824.404.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.