Amend CSHB 1579 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                      
	(1)  In SECTION 19 of the bill, strike Subsection (b) of that 
section (page 7, lines 54-63) and substitute:
	(b)  A person who retires under the Teacher Retirement System 
of Texas on or after September 1, 2005, is governed by the law as it 
existed immediately before September 1, 2005, and that law is 
continued in effect for that purpose, if the person:
		(1)  on or before August 31, 2005, meets one or more of 
the following requirements:
			(A)  the person has attained age 50;                                         
			(B)  the sum of the person's age and amount of 
service credit in the retirement system equals 70 or greater; or
			(C)  the person has at least 25 years of service 
credit in the retirement system; or
		(2)  on or before September 1, 2010, the sum of the 
person's age and amount of service credit in the retirement system 
equals the number 80.
	(2)  In SECTION 19 of the bill, in Subsection (c) of that 
section, strike "Subsections (b)(2) and (3)" each place the phrase 
appears (page 7, line 66, and page 8, line 1) and substitute 
"Subsections (b)(1)(B) and (C)".