78R933 SMJ-D

By:  Dutton                                                       H.B. No. 348



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to participation in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas 
by employees of certain campus or campus program charter schools.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 12.057(b), Education Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(b)  An employee of a campus or program granted a charter 
under this subchapter, including a campus or program operating 
under a contract with a school district, who qualifies for 
membership in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas shall be 
covered under the system in the same manner and to the same extent 
as a qualified employee employed on a regularly operating campus or 
in a regularly operating program is covered.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies to service performed during or 
after the 2003-2004 school year.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.