By Barrientos S.B. No. 256 76R1688 GCH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to reestablishment of service credit in a public 1-3 retirement system participating in the proportionate retirement 1-4 program. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 803, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 803.203 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 803.203. REESTABLISHMENT OF SERVICE CREDIT FOR PREVIOUS 1-9 EMPLOYMENT. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (d) and (e), an 1-10 eligible member of a retirement system to which this chapter 1-11 applies may reestablish service credit, including prior service 1-12 credit if applicable, previously canceled in another retirement 1-13 system to which this chapter applies. 1-14 (b) A person eligible to reestablish service credit under 1-15 this section is one who terminated service covered by, and withdrew 1-16 contributions from, a retirement system to which this chapter 1-17 applies and began service in a position covered by another 1-18 retirement system to which this chapter applies and under which the 1-19 person currently holds a position. 1-20 (c) A person may apply to reestablish service credit under 1-21 this section by filing an application with the retirement system in 1-22 which the service was originally credited. The system shall grant 1-23 the service credit when the system receives from an eligible 1-24 applicant: 2-1 (1) a contribution in the amount required to 2-2 reestablish service credit in the retirement system generally, 2-3 including any applicable interest and membership fees; and 2-4 (2) a certification that the applicant currently holds 2-5 a position included in the membership of the certifying system. 2-6 (d) If service is reestablished under this section in the 2-7 Texas County and District Retirement System or the Texas Municipal 2-8 Retirement System, the service is creditable pro rata to the 2-9 account of each subdivision or municipality for which the service 2-10 was performed. Service credit may not be reestablished under this 2-11 section for service performed for a subdivision or municipality not 2-12 participating in the proportionate retirement program. 2-13 (e) Service credit to which Section 805.002(e) applies may 2-14 not be reestablished under this section. 2-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted.