baa H.B. 1040 75(R)BILL ANALYSIS JUDICIAL AFFAIRS H.B. 1040 By: Thompson 2-26-97 Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND House Bill 66, 72nd Regular Session, created a funding mechanism for county courts and set out certain salary standards for counties receiving funds from that mechanism. In HB 66, provisions were made for judges who made less than $21,000 less than a district judge in their county. The way this provision was drafted does not allow the commissioners courts of those counties to give these judges a raise without losing the county's funding provided under HB 66. PURPOSE The purpose of this bill is to allow the commissioners courts of counties whose judges made more than $21,000 less than a district judge in their county as of May 1, 1991, to increase the salary of those judges without losing funding. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1 amends Section 25.005(e) of the Government Code to allow the commissioners courts of counties in which judges made less than $21,000 less than a district judge in their county as of May 1, 1991, to increase the salary of those judges without losing funding. SECTION 2. Emergency Clause. Effective date.