By Alonzo H.B. No. 2276
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the procedures for the setting by district judges of
1-3 the compensation of certain district or county officers or
1-4 employees.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsections (a), (b) and (d) of Section 152.905
1-7 of the Local Government Code are amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 152.905. Procedures for Setting Compensation by
1-9 District Judges. (a) This section applies only to the
1-10 compensation of the county auditor, assistant auditor, assistant
1-11 auditors, and court reporters<.> appointed by the district judges and
1-12 the support staff personnel appointed by the criminal district
1-13 judges and the judges of the district courts giving preference to
1-14 criminal cases.
1-15 (b) Before setting the amount of annual compensation of the
1-16 county auditor, assistant auditors, and court reporters<,> appointed
1-17 by the district judges and the support staff personnel appointed by
1-18 the criminal district judges and the judges of the district courts
1-19 giving preference to criminal cases, the district judge or judges
1-20 shall hold a public hearing on the matter at which parties in
1-21 interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard.
1-22 (d) At the hearing, the district judge or judges shall set
1-23 the amount of compensation of the county auditor, assistant
2-1 auditors, and court reporters<,> appointed by the district judges and
2-2 the support staff personnel appointed by the criminal district
2-3 judges and the judges of the district courts giving preference to
2-4 criminal cases considered at the hearing. The vote must be
2-5 recorded, transcribed, and maintained as a public record.
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.