Amend CSSB 368 (House Committee Report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 15 of the bill, in proposed Section 839.102(d), Government Code (page 10, line 7), between
"840.1025(a)" and the period, insert "or 840.1027".
(2) Strike SECTION 16 of the bill, amending Section 840.102,
Government Code (page 10, lines 11-16), and substitute the
following:
SECTION 16. Section 840.102, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a) and (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read
as follows:
(a) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (g) and
(h), each payroll period, a judicial officer who is a member of the
retirement system is required to contribute six percent of the
officer's state compensation for the period to the retirement
system.
(g) Except as provided by Section 840.1025, a [A] member who
accrues 20 years of service credit in the retirement system ceases
making contributions under this section but is considered a
contributing member for all other purposes under this subtitle.
(h) Except as provided by Section 840.1027, if a member has
served at least 12 years on an appellate court and the sum of the
member's age and amount of service credited in the retirement
system equals or exceeds the number 70, the member ceases making
contributions under this section. A member described by this
subsection is considered a contributing member for all other
purposes under this subtitle.
(3) Between SECTIONS 17 and 18 of the bill (page 11, between
lines 4 and 5), insert the following appropriately numbered SECTION
and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION __. Subchapter B, Chapter 840, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 840.1027 to read as follows:
Sec. 840.1027. CONTRIBUTIONS AFTER ATTAINING RULE OF 70.
(a) A judicial officer who is a member of the retirement system,
who has served at least 12 years on an appellate court, and the sum
of whose age and amount of service credited in the retirement system
equals or exceeds the number 70 may elect to make contributions for
each subsequent year of service credit that the member accrues by
filing an application with the retirement system.
(b) A member who elects to make contributions under
Subsection (a) shall contribute two percent of the member's state
compensation for each payroll period in the manner provided by
Sections 840.102(b)-(f). Section 840.105 does not apply to a
contribution under this section.
(c) A member may not make contributions under this section
for more than 10 years of subsequent service credit that the member
accrues.