By: Gallegos S.B. No. 1213

(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2007; March 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; April 23, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 23, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1213 By: Gallegos

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the administration of certain retirement systems for paid, partly paid, or volunteer firefighters.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 19, Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

(b) During each period that begins on December 1 of one year and ends on January 31 of the following year, the participating members of a fire fighters' retirement system in a municipality or other political subdivision subject to this section shall elect by secret ballot and certify to the governing body of the municipality or other political subdivision a member to the board of trustees to serve a term of three years. To be elected a member of a board of trustees under this subsection, a person must be a participating member of the retirement system and receive a majority of the votes cast in the election, and at least 50 percent of all participating members of the retirement system must vote in the election.

SECTION 2. Subsection (h), Section 21A, Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as added by Chapter 327, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is redesignated as Subsection (h-1), Section 21A, Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).

SECTION 3. Subsection (b), Section 13, Texas Local Fire Fighters Retirement Act (Article 6243e, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is repealed.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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