By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 2336
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to temporary service retirement options for certain
 1-3     members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 814.1041(a) and (f), Government Code,
 1-6     are amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  This section applies only to members of the employee
 1-8     class whose positions with the Texas Workforce Commission, the
 1-9     Texas Department of Health, the Texas Department of Human Services,
1-10     or the Texas Department of Mental  Health and Mental Retardation
1-11     are eliminated as a result of contracts with private service
1-12     providers or other reductions in services provided by those
1-13     agencies and who separate from state service at that time.
1-14           (f)  This section applies only to positions eliminated by
1-15     privatization or other reductions in workforce before September 1,
1-16     2003 [1999].
1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18           SECTION 3.  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.