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.