By Maxey H.B. No. 2336
76R8500 CLG-D
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.