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         By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 2174

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2174:

         By Kubiak                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2174

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to increasing the longevity pay of certain state

 1-3     employees.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 659.044(b) and (c), Government Code, are

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The amount increases when the 10th, 15th, 20th, [and]

 1-8     25th, 30th, 35th, and 40th years of lifetime service credit are

 1-9     accrued.

1-10           (c)  An increase is effective beginning with the month

1-11     following the month in which the 10th, 15th, 20th, [and] 25th,

1-12     30th, 35th, and 40th years of lifetime service credit are accrued.

1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.