By Sibley S.B. No. 222 75R2655 GCH-D 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.