By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 681
75R3713 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of military service credit established in the
1-3 Employees Retirement System of Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 813.304(c), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The retirement system shall use military service credit
1-8 in computing service retirement or nonoccupational disability
1-9 retirement benefits of a member of the elected class:
1-10 (1) only if the member has, without military service
1-11 credit, at least six years of service credit in that class[, if the
1-12 military service credit was established before January 1, 1978];
1-13 and [or]
1-14 (2) use of the military service credit makes [only if]
1-15 the member [has enough service credit, exclusive of the military
1-16 service credit, to be] eligible for service retirement benefits at
1-17 age 60[, if the military service credit was established on or after
1-18 January 1, 1978].
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.