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SSION PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS H.J.R. 54, § 1 persons; but nine members of a grand jury shall be a quorum to transact business and present bills. In trials of civil cases[ ' " ' ' ] mineral in the District Courts, nine members of the jury, concurring, may render a verdict, but when the verdict shall be rendered by less than the whole number, it shall be signed by every member of the jury concurring in it. When, pending the trial of any case, one or more jurors not exceeding three, may die, or be disabled from sitting, the remainder of the jury shall have ~ded to the power to render the verdict; provided, that the Legislature may change or modify the rule authorizing less than the whole number of the jury to render a verdict. fl~rnwr SECTION 2. The proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at I taxes an election to be held September 13, 2003. The ballot shall be p~qnted to permit voting for or .ye the against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment to permit a six-person jury in a - 'il" district court mlsaemeanor u a. amt of Passed by the House on May 2, 2003: Yeas 135, Nays 0, 3 present, not voting; the taxes, House concurred in Senate amendments to H.J.R. No. 44 on May 30, 2003: Yeas ,regate 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 28, 2003: Yeas 31, Nays 0. ,unt of Filed with the Secretary of State June 2, 2003. .;regate is sold HJ.R. No. 54 nit the A JOINT RESOLUTION I when proposing a constitutional amendment providing that certain benefits in certain public retirement filed, systems may not be reduced or impaired. : BE IT RESOLVED BY THE Legislature of the State of Texas: dional SECTION 1. Article XVI, Texas Constitution, is amended by adding Section 66 to read as ' a tax follows: Sec. 66. PROTECTED BENEFITS UNDER CERTAIN PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYS- ,' effect TEMS. (a) This section applies only to a public retirement system that is not a storewide ale for system and that provides service and disability retirement benefits and death benefits to ,tion of publis officers and employees. before (bi This section does not apply to a public retirement system that provides service and law is disability retirement benefits and death benefits to firefighters and police officers employed by the City of San Antonio. ~ers at (c) This section does not apply to benefits that are: for or (1) health benefits; l'or the (2) life insurance benefits; or (3) disability benefits that a retirement system determines are no longer payable under ~; the the terms of the retirement system as those terms existed on the date the retirement system Yeas began paying the disability benefits. n May (d) On or after the effective date of this sectio?h a change in service or disability retirement benefits or death benefits of a retirement ~ystem may not reduce or otherwise impair benefits accrued by a person if tho person: (1) could have terminated employment or has terminated employment before the effective dote of th.e change; and (2) teould have been eligible for those benefits, without accumulaling additional service under the retire~nent systev~ on any date on or after the effective date of the change had or trial, the change wot occurred, (e) Benefits granted to a retiree or other annuitant before the effective date of this section and in effect on that date may not be reduced or otherwise impaired, s: (t) The political subdivisiou or subdivisions and the retirement system that finance rsons, benefits under the rctirement system are jointly respo~ible for ensuring that benefits under of six this section are not reduced or otherwise impaired. A-13