By: Talton Senate Sponsor-Ellis	H.B. No. 3609
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 14, 2007;
	May 15, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Administration; May 19, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
	May 19, 2007, sent to printer.)
	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3609	By:  Brimer

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to membership and service credit in the Employees
	Retirement System of Texas for certain employees.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 812.201, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c) or (d), a retiree
	may not rejoin the retirement system as a member of the class from
	which the person retired.
	(d)  A person who retired from the employee class of
	membership with more than 14 years of service credit and who, after
	retirement, resumed employment with a house of the legislature, not
	as an employee of an individual member, is entitled, on request to
	the retirement system, to resume membership in that class and
	receive service credit for the period served in that position after
	retirement.  To receive the credit, the person is required to pay
	employee contributions, without interest, for the period of service
	after retirement.  The contributions may be deducted from the
	person's annuity as recalculated under this subsection.  This
	subsection does not apply to a person whose post-retirement service
	extends after January 1, 2007.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  A member of the Employees Retirement System
	of Texas who is an appointed or elected officer of the 80th Senate
	of the State of Texas, as determined by the Senate Journal, who has
	at least 20 years of service credit in the retirement system, may
	transfer the person's service credit to the elected class.  A person
	who makes a transfer under this provision may continue to transfer
	the credit between classes before or after retirement.
	SECTION 3.  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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