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.