By Sibley                                        S.B. No. 222

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to retirement benefits payable for service as a district

 1-3     or criminal district attorney.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 814, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 814.1031 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 814.1031.  SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR SERVICE AS

 1-8     DISTRICT OR CRIMINAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY.  (a)  Notwithstanding

 1-9     Section 814.103 and except as provided by Subsection (b), the

1-10     standard service retirement annuity for service performed as a

1-11     district or criminal district attorney is an amount equal to the

1-12     number of years of service credit in that position, multiplied by a

1-13     percentage of the state salary, as adjusted from time to time,

1-14     being paid a district judge.  The percentage is derived from the

1-15     following schedule:

1-16           Amount of service                                 Percentage 

1-17           less than 12 years                                2.0 percent

1-18           at least 12 but less than 14 years                2.2 percent

1-19           at least 14 but less than 16 years                2.4 percent

1-20           at least 16 but less than 18 years                2.6 percent

1-21           at least 18 but less than 20 years                2.8 percent

1-22           20 years or more                                  3.0 percent

1-23           (b)  The standard service retirement annuity for service

1-24     performed as a district or criminal district attorney may not

 2-1     exceed at any time 100 percent of the state salary being paid a

 2-2     district judge.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  Section 814.108(a), Government Code, is amended

 2-4     to read as follows:

 2-5           (a)  Instead of the standard service retirement annuity

 2-6     payable under Section 814.103, 814.1031, or 814.105, the standard

 2-7     combined service retirement annuity payable under Section 814.107,

 2-8     or an annuity actuarially reduced because of age under Section

 2-9     814.107, a retiring member may elect to receive an optional service

2-10     retirement annuity under this section.

2-11           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-12           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.