83R2361 KFF-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 626
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the number of hours certain employees must work to be
eligible to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 851.001(8), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(8) "Employee" means a person, including a person
serving a period of probationary employment, who receives
compensation from and is certified by a municipality as being
regularly engaged in the performance of duties of:
(A) an appointive office or position that
normally requires services from the person for not less than 1,500
[1,000] hours a year; or
(B) an elective office that normally requires
services from the person for not less than 1,000 hours a year, in a
municipality that began participating in the retirement system
after December 31, 1981, or that has adopted a membership
requirement under Section 852.107.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
person who is an employee under Section 851.001(8), Government
Code, as amended by this Act, without regard to whether the person
was hired before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.