By Deshotel H.B. No. 2173
76R8366 GJH-D
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.