By:  Wentworth                                                    S.B. No. 179
	(In the Senate - Filed January 12, 2005; February 1, 2005, 
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; 
April 6, 2005, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 
Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 6, 2005, 
sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 179                                    By:  Lucio


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to retirement benefits for visiting judges.                        
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  The Employees Retirement System of Texas shall 
recompute the annuities of all persons who retired or received a 
death benefit annuity from the Judicial Retirement System of Texas 
Plan One or the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two before 
January 1, 2002, as if the changes in law made by Chapter 1240, Acts 
of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, to Subsection (b), 
Section 834.102, and Subsection (b), Section 839.102, Government 
Code, had been in effect on the date of the person's retirement or 
death.  The first payment of any annuity increased under this 
section becomes payable with the first payment due on or after the 
effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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