By Berman H.B. No. 2239 76R6818 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to membership in the Texas County and District Retirement 1-3 System. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 842, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 842.1015 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 842.1015. OPTIONAL MEMBERSHIP FOR CERTAIN OFFICERS. 1-8 (a) A person who, after August 31, 1999, is elected as an officer 1-9 of a participating subdivision by the voters of the subdivision 1-10 does not become a member of the retirement system if the person 1-11 files a notice of intention not to become a member with the 1-12 subdivision and the retirement system. 1-13 (b) A person described by Subsection (a) who is a member at 1-14 the time of the election to office may decline to continue active 1-15 membership in the retirement system for the period of the person's 1-16 service in office by filing a notice of intention to discontinue 1-17 active membership in the system with the subdivision and the 1-18 system. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.