By: Goolsby H.B. No. 66 73R952 ESH-F 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; or 1-12 (2) a percentage increase in salary in a fiscal year 1-13 that is greater than the average percentage increase in 1-14 compensation in that fiscal year to all other employees of the 1-15 county in which the reporter serves. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.