Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 858 amends the Government Code to require that the annual salary paid to a county court at law judge and county criminal court judge in Tarrant County be in an amount that is not less than $1,000 of the total annual salary, including supplements and salary increases, paid to any district judge in that county. The bill allows the Tarrant County Commissioners Court, notwithstanding state law governing judicial salaries, to temporarily set the annual supplemental salary of judges of the district courts and criminal district courts having jurisdiction only in that county until September 1, 2007, at which time the previous salary level is reenacted to the annual supplemental salary of $8,000.