By Counts                                             H.B. No. 2084
         76R7974 GCH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to member contributions to the Judicial Retirement System
 1-3     of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan
 1-4     Two.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 835.101, Government Code, is amended by
 1-7     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
 1-8     follows:
 1-9           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), each [Each] month
1-10     the payroll officer responsible for paying the state compensation
1-11     of a judicial  officer who is a member of the retirement system
1-12     shall deduct from the state compensation of the judicial officer a
1-13     contribution computed at the rate required of a member of the
1-14     employee class of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
1-15           (c)  A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
1-16     retirement system ceases making contributions under this section.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 840.102, Government Code, is amended by
1-18     amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-19     follows:
1-20           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (g), each [Each]
1-21     payroll period, a judicial officer who is a member of the
1-22     retirement system is  required to contribute six percent of the
1-23     officer's state compensation for the period to the retirement
1-24     system.
 2-1           (g)  A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
 2-2     retirement system ceases making contributions under this section.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.