Bill Text: TX SB1735 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the repeal of certain obsolete laws governing state pensions and other similar benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1735-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the repeal of certain obsolete laws governing state pensions and other similar benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1735 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1735-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes | S.B. No. 1735 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2017; March 23, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 4, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; April 4, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the repeal of certain obsolete laws governing state | ||
pensions and other similar benefits. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. The legislature finds that certain | ||
laws governing state pension and other benefits have become | ||
obsolete and should no longer be included in the reported statutes | ||
of this state. These laws consist of: | ||
(1) part of the enabling legislation for state | ||
pensions for Confederate veterans and their surviving spouses; | ||
(2) authorization of a state pension for veterans of | ||
the Texas Revolution and their surviving spouses; | ||
(3) authorization of a state pension for certain Texas | ||
Rangers who served before September 1, 1947, and their surviving | ||
spouses; and | ||
(4) several statutes from the 1930s providing | ||
transitional funding mechanisms and appropriations for the | ||
original Texas Old Age Assistance Fund. | ||
SECTION 2. REPEALER. The following provisions are | ||
repealed: | ||
(1) Articles 6205, 6208, 6209, 6210, 6211, 6212, 6213, | ||
6214, 6215, 6217, 6218, 6220, 6221, 6222, 6223, 6224, 6225, 6226, | ||
and 6227, Revised Statutes; | ||
(2) Chapter 557 (S.B. 433), Acts of the 51st | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1949 (Article 6227a, Vernon's Texas | ||
Civil Statutes); | ||
(3) Chapter 283 (S.B. 53), Acts of the 56th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 1959 (Article 6228e, Vernon's Texas | ||
Civil Statutes); | ||
(4) Section 1, Article 1, Chapter 495 (H.B. 8), Acts of | ||
the 44th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1936 (Article 6243-2, | ||
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); | ||
(5) Chapter 479 (S.B. 8), Acts of the 44th | ||
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1936 (Article 6243-22, Vernon's | ||
Texas Civil Statutes); | ||
(6) Chapter 496 (H.B. 37), Acts of the 44th | ||
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1936 (Article 6243-23, Vernon's | ||
Texas Civil Statutes); and | ||
(7) Chapter 1 (H.B. 179), page 536, General Laws, Acts | ||
of the 46th Legislature, Regular Session, 1939 (Article 6243-24, | ||
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). | ||
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2017. | ||
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