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.
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   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
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   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
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   1-64  Name:  Jim Jackson                               x
   1-65  Representing:  Dallas Co. Comm. Court
   1-66  City:  Dallas
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   1-68  Name:  Chris Semos                               x
    2-1  Representing:  Dallas County Comm. Court
    2-2  City:  Dallas
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    2-4  Name:  Craig Pardue                              x
    2-5  Representing:  Dallas County
    2-6  City:  Dallas
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    2-8  Name:  R. W. Self                                x
    2-9  Representing:  County Judges & Comm. Assn Tx
   2-10  City:  Crosbyton
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   2-12  Name:  William D. Power "Buddy"                  x
   2-13  Representing:  County Judges & Comm. Assoc.
   2-14  City:  Marshall
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   2-16  Name:  Jim Allison                               x
   2-17  Representing:  County Judges & Comm. Assn Tx
   2-18  City:  Austin
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   2-20  Name:  Ray Holbrook                              x
   2-21  Representing:  Galveston Co. & Confer. Urban C
   2-22  City:  Galveston
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   2-24  Name:  Sam D. Seale                              x
   2-25  Representing:  Tx Assoc. of Counties
   2-26  City:  Austin
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   2-28  Name:  Jon Curlee                                x
   2-29  Representing:  Tarrant County Comm. Crt.
   2-30  City:  Fort Worth
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