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.