By Lucio                                               S.B. No. 892
         76R8200 GJH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to retirement benefits for certain members of the Teacher
 1-3     Retirement System of Texas who are employed at public schools in
 1-4     counties on the Mexican border.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 824, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 824.2025 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 824.2025.  RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS EMPLOYED IN
 1-9     COUNTIES BORDERING MEXICO.  (a)  This section applies only to a
1-10     member who has been employed for 10 consecutive years by a public
1-11     school that is:
1-12                 (1)  determined by the Texas Education Agency for each
1-13     of those 10 years to be economically disadvantaged; and
1-14                 (2)  located in a county that borders Mexico.
1-15           (b)  A member described by Subsection (a) who has at least 25
1-16     years of service credit in the retirement system, excluding
1-17     military or equivalent membership service credit, is eligible to
1-18     retire and receive a service retirement annuity if the member's age
1-19     and service credit, plus five years, would meet requirements for
1-20     service retirement under Section 824.202(a)(3) or (a)(4).  The
1-21     annuity of a person who retires under this section is computed on
1-22     the person's accrued service credit increased by five years.
1-23           (c)  A member who applies to retire under this section and
1-24     the public school from which the member separates from service
 2-1     shall provide documentation required by the retirement system to
 2-2     establish eligibility to retire under this section.
 2-3           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-4           SECTION 3.  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.