By: Lucio S.B. No. 1280 97S0816/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to participation in benefits from the Employees Retirement 1-2 System of Texas for certain law enforcement officers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (9), Section 811.001, Government 1-5 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (9) "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the 1-7 retirement system who has been commissioned as a law enforcement 1-8 officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic 1-9 Beverage Commission, the State Purchasing and General Services 1-10 Commission, Capitol Area Security Force, the State Board of 1-11 Pharmacy, the Texas Lottery Commission, or the Parks and Wildlife 1-12 Department and who is recognized as a commissioned law enforcement 1-13 officer by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and 1-14 Education. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-16 SECTION 3. 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.