Amend CSHB 4180 (senate committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ___.  Section 615.121(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  The state shall pay the following benefits to an eligible surviving spouse of a peace officer, a jailer, a county jailer or guard, or an employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, as described by Section 615.003(1), (4), [or] (6), or (7), who was killed in the line of duty and who had not qualified for an annuity under an employees' retirement plan:

(1)  funeral expenses related to the deceased person [officer or employee]; and

(2)  monthly payments that equal the greater of:

(A)  the monthly annuity payment the deceased person [officer or employee] would have received if the deceased person [officer or employee] had survived, had retired on the last day of the month in which the person [officer or employee] died, and had been eligible to receive an annuity under an employees' retirement plan; or

(B)  the minimum monthly annuity payment the deceased person [officer or employee] would have received if the person [officer or employee] had been employed by the state for 10 years, had been paid a salary at the lowest amount provided by the General Appropriations Act for a position of peace officer, jailer, county jailer or guard, or employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, as described by Section 615.003(1), (4), [or] (6), or (7), and had been eligible to retire under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.