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.