1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 761
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1999; March 2, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 16, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 761 By: Lucio
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to member contributions to the Judicial Retirement System
1-11 of Texas Plan Two.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 840.102, Government Code, is amended by
1-14 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to read as
1-15 follows:
1-16 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (g), each [Each]
1-17 payroll period, a judicial officer who is a member of the
1-18 retirement system is required to contribute six percent of the
1-19 officer's state compensation for the period to the retirement
1-20 system.
1-21 (g) A member who accrues 20 years of service credit in the
1-22 retirement system ceases making contributions under this section
1-23 but is considered a contributing member for all other purposes
1-24 under this subtitle.
1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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