76R10288 GCH-D                           
         By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 1236
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1236:
         By Bonnen                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1236
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to credit in the Texas County and District Retirement
 1-3     System for military service.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter G, Chapter 843, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 843.6011 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 843.6011.  EXPANDED CURRENT SERVICE FOR MILITARY DUTY.
 1-8     (a)  The governing body of a participating subdivision that has
 1-9     authorized the establishment of credit for military service under
1-10     Section 843.601 may by further order authorize current service
1-11     credit to be established for military service by a member who
1-12     receives or is eligible to receive federal retirement payments
1-13     based on 20 years or more of active federal military duty or its
1-14     equivalent.
1-15           (b)  Credit authorized under this section may be established
1-16     in the manner provided by Sections 843.601(e) and (f) and is
1-17     subject to the limitations provided by Sections 843.601(g) and (h).
1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.