1-1 By: Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 66 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 1993; 1-3 April 21, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 5, 1993, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 5, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Armbrister x 1-9 Leedom x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Madla x 1-13 Moncrief x 1-14 Patterson x 1-15 Rosson x 1-16 Shapiro x 1-17 Wentworth x 1-18 Whitmire x 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to the amount by which the salary of an official district 1-22 court reporter may be increased. 1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-24 SECTION 1. Section 52.051(d), Government Code, is amended to 1-25 read as follows: 1-26 (d) The official district court reporter may not receive: 1-27 (1) a salary that is more than 10 percent greater than 1-28 the salary received during the preceding budget year without the 1-29 approval of the commissioners court of each county in the judicial 1-30 district if the court reporter serves in a county with a population 1-31 of less than 1 million; or 1-32 (2) a percentage increase in salary in a fiscal year 1-33 that is greater than the average percentage increase in 1-34 compensation in that fiscal year to all other employees of the 1-35 county in which the reporter serves if the court reporter serves in 1-36 a county with a population of 1 million or more. 1-37 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-38 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-43 * * * * * 1-44 Austin, 1-45 Texas 1-46 May 5, 1993 1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-48 President of the Senate 1-49 Sir: 1-50 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-51 referred H.B. No. 66, have had the same under consideration, and I 1-52 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-53 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-54 Armbrister, 1-55 Chairman 1-56 * * * * * 1-57 WITNESSES 1-58 FOR AGAINST ON 1-59 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-60 Name: Jeff Icke x 1-61 Representing: Bexar County Commissioners Ct. 1-62 City: San Antonio 1-63 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-64 Name: Jim Jackson x 1-65 Representing: Dallas Co. Comm. Court 1-66 City: Dallas 1-67 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-68 Name: Chris Semos x 2-1 Representing: Dallas County Comm. Court 2-2 City: Dallas 2-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-4 Name: Craig Pardue x 2-5 Representing: Dallas County 2-6 City: Dallas 2-7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-8 Name: R. W. Self x 2-9 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assn Tx 2-10 City: Crosbyton 2-11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-12 Name: William D. Power "Buddy" x 2-13 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assoc. 2-14 City: Marshall 2-15 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-16 Name: Jim Allison x 2-17 Representing: County Judges & Comm. Assn Tx 2-18 City: Austin 2-19 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-20 Name: Ray Holbrook x 2-21 Representing: Galveston Co. & Confer. Urban C 2-22 City: Galveston 2-23 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-24 Name: Sam D. Seale x 2-25 Representing: Tx Assoc. of Counties 2-26 City: Austin 2-27 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-28 Name: Jon Curlee x 2-29 Representing: Tarrant County Comm. Crt. 2-30 City: Fort Worth 2-31 -------------------------------------------------------------------