By Barrientos S.B. No. 1210 75R6917 GCH-D 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.