By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 761
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to member contributions to the Judicial Retirement System
 1-2     of Texas Plan Two.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 840.102, Government Code, is amended by
 1-5     amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (g) to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (g), each [Each]
 1-8     payroll period, a judicial officer who is a member of the
 1-9     retirement system is required to contribute six percent of the
1-10     officer's state compensation for the period to the retirement
1-11     system.
1-12           (g)  A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
1-13     retirement system ceases making contributions under this section
1-14     but is considered a contributing member for all other purposes
1-15     under this subtitle.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.