1-1     By:  Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Carona)      H.B. No. 2029

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State

 1-4     Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to retirement because of disability under the Employees

 1-9     Retirement System of Texas.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 814.204, Government Code, is amended by

1-12     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

1-13           (e)  A contributing member who is also a member of the Texas

1-14     National Guard or the Texas State Guard is eligible for retirement

1-15     for an occupational disability if the person:

1-16                 (1)  is injured while on active duty with the national

1-17     or state guard;

1-18                 (2)  is discharged from that entity because of the

1-19     injury; and

1-20                 (3)  ceases state employment.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

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

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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