By: Williams S.B. No. 262
(In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2005; February 3, 2005,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 1, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 1, 2005, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to benefits from the Employees Retirement System of Texas
for law enforcement officers commissioned by the Texas State Board
of Pharmacy.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (9), Section 811.001, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(9) "Law enforcement officer" means a member of the
retirement system who:
(A) has been commissioned as a law enforcement
officer by the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic
Beverage Commission, [the State Board of Pharmacy,] or the Parks
and Wildlife Department; and
(B) [who] is recognized as a commissioned law
enforcement officer by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
Standards and Education.
SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 814.104, Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) A member who is at least 55 years old and who has at
least 10 years of service credit as a commissioned peace officer
engaged in criminal law enforcement activities of the Department of
Public Safety, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, [the State
Board of Pharmacy,] or the Parks and Wildlife Department, or as a
custodial officer, is eligible to retire and receive a service
retirement annuity.
SECTION 3. Section 815.505, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 815.505. CERTIFICATION OF NAMES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
CUSTODIAL OFFICERS. Not later than the 12th day of the month
following the month in which a person begins or ceases employment as
a law enforcement officer or custodial officer, the Public Safety
Commission, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Parks and
Wildlife Commission, [the State Board of Pharmacy,] the Board of
Pardons and Paroles, or the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, as
applicable, shall certify to the retirement system, in the manner
prescribed by the system, the name of the employee and such other
information as the system determines is necessary for the crediting
of service and financing of benefits under this subtitle.
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a person who begins employment as a law enforcement officer of
the Texas State Board of Pharmacy on or after the effective date of
this Act. A person who begins employment as a law enforcement
officer of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act, and that former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
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