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.