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Amend CSSB 1370 (Senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) Strike SECTION 1.01 of the bill (page 1, lines 16-21).
(2) In SECTION 1.02 of the bill, strike amended Section
2(a), Article 3.50-8, Insurance Code (page 1, lines 25-35), and
substitute:
(a) Each year, the trustee shall deliver to each school
district, including a school district that is ineligible for state
aid under Chapter 42, Education Code, each other educational
district that is a member of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas,
each participating charter school, and each regional education
service center state funds in an amount, as determined by the
trustee, equal to:
(1) the product of the number of full-time active
employees employed by the district, school, or service center,
other than in the capacity of professional staff, multiplied by
$500 [$1,000] or a greater amount as provided by the General
Appropriations Act for purposes of this article; and
(2) the product of the number of part-time active
employees employed by the district, school, or service center,
other than in the capacity of professional staff, multiplied by
$250 or a greater amount as provided by the General Appropriations
Act for purposes of this article.
(3) In SECTION 2.03 of the bill, in amended Section
1551.102(a), Insurance Code (page 2, lines 28-29), strike "in
accordance with this section".
(4) In SECTION 2.04 of the bill, in amended Section
1551.102(d)(2), Insurance Code, strike Paragraph (A) (page 3, lines
12-17) and substitute the following:
(A) is at least 65 years of age, or would have
been eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity
from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas or the Employees
Retirement System of Texas in an amount such that the sum of the
person's age and amount of service credit, including months of age
and credit, equals or exceeds the number 80 or would have been
eligible to retire and receive a disability retirement annuity from
the Teacher Retirement System of Texas or the Employees Retirement
System of Texas, [based on at least 10 years of service credit] if
the individual had not elected to participate in the optional
retirement program; or
(5) In SECTION 2.10 of the bill, in the recital (page 4, line
57), strike "Subsection (c)" and substitute "Subsections (c) and
(d)".
(6) In SECTION 2.10 of the bill, in added Section
1551.319(c), Insurance Code (page 4, line 64), strike "section" and
substitute "chapter".
(7) Following SECTION 2.10 of the bill (page 4, between
lines 64 and 65), insert:
(d) This section does not prohibit an institution of higher
education from contributing, from money not appropriated from the
general revenue fund, amounts in excess of the state contribution
for a part-time employee described by Section 1551.101(e)(2).
(8) In ARTICLE 3 of the bill, following the heading of the
article (page 5, between lines 1 and 2), insert the following new
SECTION, appropriately numbered:
SECTION 3.____. Section 1575.002, Insurance Code, as
effective June 1, 2003, is amended by repealing Subdivision (2),
amending Subdivisions (1), (3), (4), and (7) and adding Subdivision
(6-a) to conform to Section 3.03, Chapter 1187, Acts of the 77th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, and to conform more closely to
the source law from which the section was derived, and further
amended to read as follows:
(1) "Active employee" means a contributing member of
the Teacher Retirement System of Texas [an employee as defined by
Section 821.001, Government Code,] who:
(A) is employed by a public school [a member of
the system]; and
(B) is not entitled to coverage under a plan
provided under Chapter 1551 or 1601.
(3) "Carrier" means an insurance company or hospital
service corporation authorized by the department under this code or
another insurance law of this state to provide any of the insurance
coverages, benefits, or services provided by this chapter.
(4) "Fund" means the retired [Texas public] school
employees group insurance fund.
(6-a) "Public school" means:
(A) a school district;
(B) another educational district whose
employees are members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
(C) a regional education service center
established under Chapter 8, Education Code; or
(D) an open-enrollment charter school
established under Subchapter D, Chapter 12, Education Code.
(7) "Trustee" ["System"] means the Teacher
Retirement System of Texas.
(9) In SECTION 3.02 of the bill, strike amended Section
1575.204, Insurance Code (page 5, lines 9-19), and substitute:
Sec. 1575.204. PUBLIC SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION [RATIO OF STATE
AND ACTIVE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS]. Each state fiscal year, each
public school shall contribute to the fund the amount prescribed by
the General Appropriations Act, which may not be less than 0.25
percent or greater than 0.75 percent of the salary of each active
employee of the public school. The public school shall make the
contributions on a monthly basis and as otherwise prescribed by the
trustee [If the amount of state and active employee contributions
to the fund is raised by the legislature above the percentages
provided by Sections 1575.202 and 1575.203 to provide adequate
funding for the group program, the ratio between the state's
contribution and the active employees' contributions must be
maintained at two to one].
(10) In SECTION 4.04 of the bill, in amended Section
1601.201(c), Insurance Code, between "the system" and "may
contribute" (page 6, line 14), insert: ", from money appropriated
from the general revenue fund,".
(11) In SECTION 4.04 of the bill, in amended Section
1601.201(c), Insurance Code, between "coverage" and "[shall" (page
6, line 18), insert:
.
(d) Subsection (c) does not prohibit a system from
contributing, from money not appropriated from the general revenue
fund, amounts in excess of the amount specified by that subsection
for an individual employed by the system in a position that as a
condition of employment requires the individual to be enrolled as a
student in the system in graduate level courses
(12) Renumber SECTIONS of the bill accordingly.