By Wise                                         H.B. No. 1588

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to notice by school districts concerning social security

 1-3     benefits.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 22.006 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 22.006.  NOTICE CONCERNING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.

 1-8     Each school district that does not participate in the Social

 1-9     Security System must include notice on each employment application

1-10     or employment contract that the pension a district employee

1-11     receives based on district employment for which social security

1-12     taxes are not withheld may reduce the employee's social security

1-13     benefits.  The notice must be placed in a prominent position on the

1-14     application and contract and must state a phone number of a

1-15     district office the applicant or employee may call for further

1-16     information.

1-17           SECTION 2.  A school district that does not participate in

1-18     the Social Security System must use employment applications and

1-19     employment contracts that comply with Section 22.006, Education

1-20     Code, as added by this Act, beginning not later than January 1,

1-21     1998.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

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

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.