By Longoria H.B. No. 195
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 195:
By Van de Putte C.S.H.B. No. 195
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to benefits paid to surviving spouses of certain public
1-3 servants.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 615.022, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 615.022. PAYMENT TO SURVIVING SPOUSE. The state shall
1-8 pay $150,000 [$50,000] to an eligible surviving spouse.
1-9 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-10 (b) The changes in law made by this Act relating to the
1-11 death of certain public servants apply only to a death that occurs
1-12 on or after the effective date of this Act. A death that occurs
1-13 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
1-14 effect when the death occurs, and that law is continued in effect
1-15 for that purpose.
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.