By Jones of Lubbock                                   H.B. No. 1284
         76R5757 GCH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to use of military service credit in the Employees
 1-3     Retirement System of Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 813.304(c), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The retirement system shall use military service credit
 1-8     in computing service retirement or nonoccupational disability
 1-9     retirement benefits of a member of the elected class:
1-10                 (1)  only if the member has, without military service
1-11     credit, at least six years of service credit in that class, if the
1-12     military service credit was performed [established] before January
1-13     1, 1978; or
1-14                 (2)  only if the member has enough service credit,
1-15     exclusive of the military service credit, to be eligible for
1-16     service retirement benefits at age 60, if the military service
1-17     credit was performed [established] on or after January 1, 1978.
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.