By: Wentworth S.B. No. 838 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to service credit in the Judicial Retirement System of 1-2 Texas Plan Two. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 838, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 838.106 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 838.106. CREDIT FOR YEAR IN WHICH ELIGIBLE FOR OFFICE. 1-7 (a) A contributing member may establish service credit in the 1-8 retirement system for any calendar year during any part of which 1-9 the member held an office included in the membership of the system. 1-10 (b) A member may establish credit under this section by 1-11 depositing with the retirement system a contribution computed for 1-12 each month of credit claimed at the rate of six percent of the 1-13 member's current monthly compensation, plus, if the member does not 1-14 establish the credit before the first anniversary of the date of 1-15 first eligibility, interest computed on the basis of the state 1-16 fiscal year at an annual rate of 10 percent from the date of first 1-17 eligibility to the date of deposit. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.