By Kubiak                                       H.B. No. 2176

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to eligibility of state employees for a service retirement

 1-3     annuity from the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 814.104, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  A member who is at least 55 years old and has at least

 1-8     20 years of service credit in the retirement system is eligible to

 1-9     retire and receive a service retirement annuity actuarially reduced

1-10     from the standard service retirement annuity.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.