By Chisum H.B. No. 166 76R913 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for 1-3 service as a peace officer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 813, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 813.511 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 813.511. PREVIOUS PEACE OFFICER SERVICE. (a) An 1-8 eligible member may establish service credit in the retirement 1-9 system for previous service performed as a peace officer: 1-10 (1) licensed by the Commission on Law Enforcement 1-11 Officer Standards and Education or not required to be licensed by 1-12 that commission; and 1-13 (2) commissioned by a municipal police department or 1-14 county sheriff's office in this state. 1-15 (b) A member eligible to establish credit under this section 1-16 is one who: 1-17 (1) is a contributing member as a law enforcement or 1-18 custodial officer; and 1-19 (2) applies for credit under this section before the 1-20 second anniversary of the date the member becomes a law enforcement 1-21 or custodial officer. 1-22 (c) A member may establish credit under this section by 1-23 depositing with the retirement system for each month of service 1-24 claimed: 2-1 (1) a contribution computed on the member's 2-2 compensation for the service as a peace officer at the combined 2-3 rates required of the state and employee members of the retirement 2-4 system at the time the service was performed; and 2-5 (2) interest on the amount determined under 2-6 Subdivision (1) computed on the basis of the state fiscal year at 2-7 an annual rate of 10 percent from the date the service was 2-8 performed to the date of deposit. 2-9 (d) A member may not establish more than 60 months of 2-10 service credit under this section. Credit established under this 2-11 section is used in computing the amount of an annuity under this 2-12 subtitle but may not be used to meet a minimum service requirement 2-13 for an annuity. Credit may be established under this section by a 2-14 lump-sum payment or by payments authorized by Section 813.104. 2-15 Credit may not be established under this section for service that 2-16 is currently credited in another public retirement system. 2-17 (e) The state is not required to make contributions for 2-18 service established under this section. 2-19 (f) The retirement system may require applicants for credit 2-20 under this section to submit any information the system considers 2-21 necessary to enable it to determine eligibility for or amount of 2-22 credit or amounts of required contributions. 2-23 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 813.511(b)(2), Government 2-24 Code, as added by this Act, a person who on the effective date of 2-25 this Act has been a member of the Employees Retirement System of 2-26 Texas as a law enforcement or custodial officer for two years or 2-27 more may apply for service credit under Section 813.511, Government 3-1 Code, as added by this Act, before January 1, 2000. 3-2 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 3-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.