H.B. No. 9

	AN ACT
	rela
	ting to the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Sections 812.003(a), (d), and (e), Government
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Subsection [Subsections] (b) [and
	(d)], membership in the employee class of the retirement system
	includes all employees and appointed officers of every department,
	commission, board, agency, or institution of the state except:
	(1)  independent contractors and their employees
	performing work for the state; and
	(2)  persons disqualified from membership under
	Section 812.201.
	(d)  Membership in the employee class begins on the [91st day
	after the] first day a person is employed or holds office.
	(e)  A person who is reemployed or who again holds office
	after withdrawing contributions under Subchapter B for previous
	service credited in the employee class begins membership in the
	employee class on the [91st day after the] first day the person is
	reemployed or again holds office.
	SECTION 2.  Section 813.514, Government Code, is amended by
	amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
	follows:
	(a)  This section applies only to a member who became a
	member before September 1, 2015.
	(a-1)  A member may establish service credit under this
	section in the employee class only for service performed during a
	90-day waiting period to become a member after beginning employment
	or holding office.
	SECTION 3.  Section 815.402(a), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(a)  Except as provided by Section 813.201, each payroll
	period, each department or agency of the state shall cause to be
	deducted from each member's compensation a contribution of:
	(1)  9.5 [6.6 percent of the compensation if the member
	is not a member of the legislature, for service rendered after
	August 31, 2013, and before September 1, 2014;
	[(2)     6.9 percent of the compensation if the member is
	not a member of the legislature, for service rendered after August
	31, 2014, and before September 1, 2015;
	[(3)  7.2] percent of the compensation if the member is
	not a member of the legislature, for service rendered after August
	31, 2015, and before September 1, 2017 [2016];
	(2)  [(4)     7.5 percent of the compensation if the
	member is not a member of the legislature, for service rendered
	after August 31, 2016;
	[(5)]  for service by a member who is not a member of
	the legislature rendered on or after September 1, 2017, the lesser
	of:
	(A)  9.5 [7.5] percent of the member's annual
	compensation; or
	(B)  a percentage of the member's annual
	compensation equal to 9.5 [7.5] percent reduced by one-tenth of one
	percent for each one-tenth of one percent that the state
	contribution rate for the fiscal year to which the service relates
	is less than the state contribution rate established for the 2017
	[2015] fiscal year; or
	(3)  9.5 [(6) eight] percent of the compensation if the
	member is a member of the legislature.
	SECTION 4.  Section 812.003(f), Government Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the House on April 14,
	2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 9 on May 26, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2
	present, not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	I certify that H.B. No. 9 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 22, 2015, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
	0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date
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	Governor