By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 119
         76R3398 GCH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to benefits from the Employees Retirement System of Texas
 1-3     for law enforcement officers commissioned by the Texas Lottery
 1-4     Commission.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 811.001(9), Government Code, is amended
 1-7     to read as follows:
 1-8                 (9)  "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the
 1-9     retirement system who has been commissioned as a law enforcement
1-10     officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic
1-11     Beverage Commission, the State Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Lottery
1-12     Commission, or the Parks and Wildlife Department and who is
1-13     recognized as a commissioned law enforcement officer by the
1-14     Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
1-15           SECTION 2.  Section 814.104(b), Government Code, is amended
1-16     to read as follows:
1-17           (b)  A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
1-18     least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
1-19     engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
1-20     Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the State
1-21     Board of Pharmacy, the Texas Lottery Commission, or the Parks and
1-22     Wildlife Department, as an employee of the Railroad Commission of
1-23     Texas who is  licensed by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
1-24     Standards and Education and has served at least five years as an
 2-1     investigator for the oil field theft detection division, or as a
 2-2     custodial officer, is eligible to retire and receive a service
 2-3     retirement annuity.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  Section 815.505, Government Code, is amended to
 2-5     read as follows:
 2-6           Sec. 815.505. CERTIFICATION OF NAMES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
 2-7     CUSTODIAL OFFICERS.  Not later than the 12th day of the month
 2-8     following the month in which a person begins or ceases employment
 2-9     as a law enforcement officer or custodial officer, the Public
2-10     Safety Commission, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the
2-11     Parks and Wildlife Commission, the State Board of Pharmacy, the
2-12     Texas Lottery Commission, or the Texas Board of Criminal Justice,
2-13     as applicable, shall  certify to the retirement system, in the
2-14     manner prescribed by the system, the name of the employee and such
2-15     other information as the system determines is necessary for the
2-16     crediting of service and financing of benefits under this subtitle.
2-17           SECTION 4.  Before October 1, 1999, the Texas Lottery
2-18     Commission shall certify to the Employees Retirement System of
2-19     Texas, in the manner prescribed by the retirement system, the name
2-20     of each person employed by the commission on September 1, 1999, as
2-21     a law enforcement officer as defined by Section 811.001, Government
2-22     Code, as amended by this Act, and such other information as the
2-23     system determines is necessary for the crediting of service and
2-24     financing of benefits under Subtitle B, Title 8, Government Code.
2-25           SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-26           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.