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.