Bill Text: TX HB651 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the number of hours certain employees must work to be eligible to participate in the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - No action taken in committee [HB651 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB651-Introduced.html
| By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 651 | |
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| 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 1,000 | ||
| hours a year or the number of hours required by an ordinance adopted | ||
| under Section 851.0011; 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. Subchapter A, Chapter 851, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 851.0011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 851.0011. OPTIONAL ALTERNATIVE DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE. (a) The | ||
| governing body of a participating municipality by ordinance may | ||
| adopt an alternative definition of "employee" for purposes of this | ||
| subtitle that increases the number of hours a person in an | ||
| appointive office or position is normally required to serve under | ||
| Section 851.001(8)(A) from not less than 1,000 hours a year to not | ||
| less than 1,500 hours a year. | ||
| (b) An ordinance under this section: | ||
| (1) must designate the effective date of the | ||
| ordinance; and | ||
| (2) applies only to an employee of a participating | ||
| municipality who is hired on or after the effective date of the | ||
| ordinance. | ||
| (c) The participating municipality must provide notice and | ||
| a copy of the ordinance to the retirement system at least 30 days | ||
| before the effective date of the ordinance. Failure to do so pushes | ||
| back the effective date of the ordinance until the 30 day notice | ||
| requirement is fulfilled. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
