By: Barrientos S.B. No. 458
97S0036/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for
1-2 military service.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 813.302, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) A member eligible to establish military service credit
1-7 is one who:
1-8 (1) [does not receive and is not eligible to receive
1-9 federal retirement payments based on 20 years or more of active
1-10 federal military duty or its equivalent;]
1-11 [(2)] has been released from military duty under
1-12 honorable conditions [not dishonorable]; and
1-13 (2) [(3)] has credit in the retirement system for
1-14 membership service performed after the member's date of release
1-15 from active military duty.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.