Amend HB 3731 (Senate committee printing) by inserting the
following new SECTION to the bill, numbered appropriately, and
renumbering SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION __. Subsection (b), Section 29, Texas Local Fire
Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
(b) A municipality or other political subdivision that has
employees who are participating members of a retirement system
shall make contributions to the system each payroll period. Except
as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, contributions
required under this subsection are computed on the total
compensation paid to the employees who are participating members of
the system. A municipality or other political subdivision is
required to make contributions under this subsection at the same
rate paid by employees or 12 [nine] percent, whichever is the
smaller rate. The governing body of a municipality or other
political subdivision by ordinance may adopt a rate of employer
contributions that is greater than the rate required by this
subsection.