By Greenberg H.B. No. 3008 76R8859 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for 1-3 certain out-of-state service. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 813, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 813.511 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 813.511. CERTAIN OUT-OF-STATE SERVICE. (a) Except as 1-8 provided by Subsection (b), an eligible member may establish 1-9 service credit in the retirement system for employment with a 1-10 public school system maintained wholly or partly by another state 1-11 or territory of the United States or by the United States for 1-12 children of its citizens. A school receiving funds under 22 U.S.C. 1-13 Section 2701 is considered a public school for the purposes of this 1-14 section. 1-15 (b) A member may not establish credit under this section for 1-16 service performed for a public school while a member of the armed 1-17 forces and for which the member was compensated by the United 1-18 States or for service credited in the Teacher Retirement System of 1-19 Texas. 1-20 (c) A member eligible to establish credit under this section 1-21 is one who has at least five years of service credit in the 1-22 retirement system and is an employee of the Texas School for the 1-23 Deaf or the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. 1-24 (d) A member may establish credit under this section by 2-1 depositing with the retirement system: 2-2 (1) a contribution based on the member's monthly 2-3 compensation at the time credit is sought and computed for the 2-4 number of months for which credit is sought at the combined 2-5 contribution rates required for the state and employee members of 2-6 the system for new service; 2-7 (2) interest computed on the basis of the state fiscal 2-8 year at an annual rate of 10 percent from the date the service was 2-9 performed to the date of deposit; and 2-10 (3) any membership fees required of members of the 2-11 system during the period of the service. 2-12 (e) The amount of service credit a member may establish 2-13 under this section may not exceed the lesser of the number of 2-14 months of service credit the member has in the retirement system 2-15 or 120 months. 2-16 (f) The retirement system shall deposit the compensation 2-17 contribution in the member's individual account in the employees 2-18 saving account, interest in the state accumulation account, and 2-19 membership fees in the expense account. 2-20 (g) The retirement system shall determine the amount to be 2-21 deposited in each case and may not grant service credit under this 2-22 section until the member provides proof of eligibility for the 2-23 credit that is satisfactory to the retirement system. 2-24 (h) The retirement system may not use service credit granted 2-25 under this section in computing a member's average monthly 2-26 compensation. 2-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 3-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.