By Naishtat                                      H.B. No. 874

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for

 1-3     military service.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 813.302(b), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  A member eligible to establish military service credit

 1-8     is one who:

 1-9                 (1)  [does not receive and is not eligible to receive

1-10     federal retirement payments based on 20 years or more of active

1-11     federal military duty or its equivalent;]

1-12                 [(2)]  has been released from military duty under

1-13     honorable conditions [not dishonorable]; and

1-14                 (2) [(3)]  has credit in the retirement system for

1-15     membership service performed after the member's date of release

1-16     from active military duty.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.