By Zaffirini                                           S.B. No. 721
         76R7740 GCH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to credit in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan
 1-3     Two for certain judicial service.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 838, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 838.1041 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 838.1041.  COUNTY COURT-AT-LAW SERVICE.  (a)  A member
 1-8     may establish equivalent membership service credit in the
 1-9     retirement system for service that was performed as judge of a
1-10     county court at law and that once was, but is not currently,
1-11     credited in the Texas County and District Retirement System.
1-12           (b)  A member may establish credit under this section by
1-13     depositing with the retirement system the amount withdrawn from the
1-14     Texas County and District Retirement System, plus interest computed
1-15     on the  state fiscal year at an annual rate of 10 percent from the
1-16     date of withdrawal to the date of deposit in the retirement system.
1-17           (c)  The retirement system may require members applying for
1-18     credit under this section to submit any information the system
1-19     considers necessary to determine eligibility for credit, amount of
1-20     service, or amounts of required deposits.
1-21           (d)  Credit established under this section may not be
1-22     subsequently credited in the Texas County and District Retirement
1-23     System.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-1           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-2     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-3     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-4     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-5     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.