By Goolsby                                              H.B. No. 66
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the amount by which the salary of an official district
    1-3  court reporter may be increased.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 52.051(d), Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  The official district court reporter may not receive:
    1-8              (1)  a salary that is more than 10 percent greater than
    1-9  the salary received during the preceding budget year without the
   1-10  approval of the commissioners court of each county in the judicial
   1-11  district if the court reporter serves in a county with a population
   1-12  of less than 1 million; or
   1-13              (2)  a percentage increase in salary in a fiscal year
   1-14  that is greater than the average percentage increase in
   1-15  compensation in that fiscal year to all other employees of the
   1-16  county in which the reporter serves if the court reporter serves in
   1-17  a county with a population of 1 million or more.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.