By Walker                                              H.B. No. 784
         76R2404 GJH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to annuities for certain teachers under the Teacher
 1-3     Retirement System of Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 824.203, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (a)  Except as provided by Subsections (c), (d), [and] (e),
 1-9     and (f), the standard service retirement annuity is an amount
1-10     computed on the  basis of the member's average annual compensation
1-11     for the three years of service, whether or not consecutive, in
1-12     which the member received the highest annual compensation, times
1-13     two percent for each year of service credit in the retirement
1-14     system.
1-15           (f)  In this subsection, "teacher" means an employee of a
1-16     school district who is a nurse or who is a full-time employee
1-17     required to hold a certificate issued under Subchapter B, Chapter
1-18     21, Education Code, including a superintendent, principal,
1-19     supervisor, classroom teacher, or counselor.  The standard service
1-20     retirement annuity payable for a member who has at least 20 years
1-21     of service credit as a teacher is an amount computed on the basis
1-22     of the member's average annual compensation for the three years of
1-23     service in which the member received the highest annual
1-24     compensation, times 2.25 percent for each year of service credit in
 2-1     the retirement system.  For purposes of this subsection, service
 2-2     credit for state personal or sick leave under Section  823.403 is
 2-3     service credit as a teacher if the member is a teacher immediately
 2-4     before retirement.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.