By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3327
         76R9399 GJH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to disability retirement benefits for certain peace
 1-3     officers under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 814.207(c), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A disability retirement annuity under this section is
 1-8     not reducible because of age and may not be less than 70 [50]
 1-9     percent of the officer's monthly compensation regardless of the
1-10     amount of service credited to the officer in the employee class.
1-11           SECTION 2.  (a)  The Employees Retirement System of Texas
1-12     shall recompute an annuity that first became payable before
1-13     September 1, 1999, as though Section 814.207(c), Government Code,
1-14     as amended by this Act, was in effect on the date the annuity first
1-15     became payable.
1-16           (b)  The first payment of the recomputed annuity is payable
1-17     on the first payment date occurring on or after the effective date
1-18     of this Act.
1-19           SECTION 3.   This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 4.  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.