By Longoria                                     H.B. No. 1450

      75R4648 GCH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to reestablishment of service credit in a public

 1-3     retirement system participating in the proportionate retirement

 1-4     program.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 803, Government Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 803.203 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 803.203.  REESTABLISHMENT OF SERVICE CREDIT FOR PREVIOUS

 1-9     EMPLOYMENT.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsections (d) and (e), an

1-10     eligible member of a retirement system to which this chapter

1-11     applies may reestablish service credit, including prior service

1-12     credit if applicable, previously canceled in another retirement

1-13     system to which this chapter applies.

1-14           (b)  A person eligible to reestablish service credit under

1-15     this section is one who terminated service covered by, and withdrew

1-16     contributions from, a retirement system to which this chapter

1-17     applies and began service in a position covered by another

1-18     retirement system to which this chapter applies and under which the

1-19     person currently holds a position.

1-20           (c)  A person may apply to reestablish service credit under

1-21     this section by filing an application with the retirement system in

1-22     which the service was originally credited.  The system shall grant

1-23     the service credit when the system receives from an eligible

1-24     applicant:

 2-1                 (1)  a contribution in the amount required to

 2-2     reestablish service credit in the retirement system generally,

 2-3     including any applicable interest and membership fees; and

 2-4                 (2)  a certification that the applicant currently holds

 2-5     a position included in the membership of the certifying system.

 2-6           (d)  If service is reestablished under this section in the

 2-7     Texas County and District Retirement System or the Texas Municipal

 2-8     Retirement System, the service is creditable pro rata to the

 2-9     account of each subdivision or municipality for which the service

2-10     was performed.  Service credit may not be reestablished under this

2-11     section for service performed for a subdivision or municipality not

2-12     participating in the proportionate retirement program.

2-13           (e)  Service credit to which Section 805.002(e) applies may

2-14     not be reestablished under this section.

2-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-21     passage, and it is so enacted.