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.