By Deshotel                                           H.B. No. 2173
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to service retirement benefits for certain members of the
 1-3     Employees Retirement System of Texas who are affected by a
 1-4     workforce reduction.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 814.1041(f), Government Code, is amended
 1-7     to read as follows:
 1-8           (f)  This section applies only to positions eliminated by
 1-9     privatization or other reductions in workforce before September 1,
1-10     2001 [1999].
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.