By Duncan S.B. No. 761
76R7974 GCH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to member contributions to the Judicial Retirement System
1-3 of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan
1-4 Two.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 835.101, Government Code, is amended by
1-7 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), each [Each] month
1-10 the payroll officer responsible for paying the state compensation
1-11 of a judicial officer who is a member of the retirement system
1-12 shall deduct from the state compensation of the judicial officer a
1-13 contribution computed at the rate required of a member of the
1-14 employee class of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
1-15 (c) A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
1-16 retirement system ceases making contributions under this section.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 840.102, Government Code, is amended by
1-18 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (g), each [Each]
1-21 payroll period, a judicial officer who is a member of the
1-22 retirement system is required to contribute six percent of the
1-23 officer's state compensation for the period to the retirement
1-24 system.
2-1 (g) A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
2-2 retirement system ceases making contributions under this section.
2-3 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.