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      By Tillery                                      H.B. No. 2320

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to benefits from the Employees Retirement System of Texas

 1-3     for certain employees of the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer

 1-4     Standards and Education.

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

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 813.501, Government Code, is amended to

 1-7     read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 813.501.  Service Creditable in Employee Class.  Service

 1-9     creditable in the employee class of membership is:

1-10                 (1)  membership service in a position included in that

1-11     class;

1-12                 (2)  military service established as provided by

1-13     Subchapter D;

1-14                 (3)  service creditable in or transferred from the

1-15     elected class as provided by Section 813.503; [and]

1-16                 (4)  administrative board service established as

1-17     provided by Section 813.502[.]; and

1-18                 (5)  membership service previously established in a

1-19     public retirement system, as defined by this Title, by an employee

1-20     class member who is an employee of the Commission on Law

1-21     Enforcement Officer Standards and Education, holds a peace officer

1-22     license and has served at least five years as a commissioned peace

1-23     officer in Texas.

1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 813.505, Government Code, is amended by

 2-1     adding the following:

 2-2           Sec 813.505.  CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SERVICE NOT PREVIOUSLY

 2-3     ESTABLISHED.

 2-4           (c)  A member claiming credit in the employee class for

 2-5     membership service not previously established, who is an employee

 2-6     of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and

 2-7     Education on September 1, 1997, holds a peace officer license and

 2-8     has served at least five years as a commissioned peace officer in

 2-9     Texas shall, for each month of the service, pay a contribution in

2-10     an amount equal to the amount that the member contributed for the

2-11     first full month of employee class membership service credited in

2-12     the retirement system.

2-13           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-14           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its

2-20     terms, and it is so enacted.