1-1 By: Telford (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 336
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 20, 1997;
1-3 March 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the administration of retirement systems for paid or
1-9 partly paid firefighters.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 7(f), Texas Local Fire Fighters
1-12 Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (f) The effective date of a change or addition adopted under
1-15 this section is a date specified by the board of trustees that is
1-16 not earlier than the date of adoption by the board. A change or
1-17 addition may not be applied retroactive to its effective date
1-18 unless required to maintain a plan's tax qualification status.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 19(a), Texas Local Fire Fighters
1-20 Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-21 amended to read as follows:
1-22 (a) In each municipality and other political subdivision to
1-23 which this Act applies and that has a fire department that does not
1-24 consist exclusively of volunteers, the fire fighters' retirement
1-25 system is governed by a board of trustees consisting of:
1-26 (1) the mayor of the municipality or the mayor's
1-27 designated representative or the chief operating officer of the
1-28 political subdivision or the chief operating officer's designated
1-29 representative, as applicable;
1-30 (2) the chief financial officer of the municipality or
1-31 other political subdivision or, if there is no officer denominated
1-32 as chief financial officer, the person who performs the duties of
1-33 chief financial officer or a person designated by the chief
1-34 financial officer or by the person performing the duties of chief
1-35 financial officer;
1-36 (3) three members of the retirement system elected by
1-37 participating members as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-38 section; and
1-39 (4) two persons who reside in this state in [residents
1-40 of] the municipality or other political subdivision or within the
1-41 extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality, who are not
1-42 officers or employees of the municipality or other political
1-43 subdivision, and who are elected by a majority vote of the members
1-44 of the board of trustees determined as provided by Subdivisions
1-45 (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection.
1-46 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-47 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-51 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-52 passage, and it is so enacted.
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