By Thompson H.B. No. 1040
75R4794 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the salaries of statutory county court judges.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.0005(e), Government Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (e) A county is not required to meet the salary requirements
1-7 of Subsection (a) for a particular court if:
1-8 (1) not later than September 1 of the year in which
1-9 the county initially begins collecting fees and costs under Section
1-10 51.702, the county increases the salary of each statutory county
1-11 court judge in the county to an amount that is at least $20,000
1-12 more than the salary the judge was entitled to on May 1 of that
1-13 year;
1-14 (2) the county pays at least [maintains] the salary
1-15 [at the minimum] required by Subdivision (1);
1-16 (3) the county collects the fees and costs as provided
1-17 by Section 51.702;
1-18 (4) the court has at least the jurisdiction provided
1-19 by Section 25.0003; and
1-20 (5) except as provided by Subsection (f), the county
1-21 uses at least 50 percent of the amount the county receives each
1-22 state fiscal year under Section 25.0016 for salaries for the
1-23 statutory county court judges.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.