1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1040
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;
1-3 April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; April 23, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the salaries of statutory county court judges.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 25.0005(e), Government Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 (e) A county is not required to meet the salary requirements
1-13 of Subsection (a) for a particular court if:
1-14 (1) not later than September 1 of the year in which
1-15 the county initially begins collecting fees and costs under Section
1-16 51.702, the county increases the salary of each statutory county
1-17 court judge in the county to an amount that is at least $20,000
1-18 more than the salary the judge was entitled to on May 1 of that
1-19 year;
1-20 (2) the county pays at least [maintains] the salary
1-21 [at the minimum] required by Subdivision (1);
1-22 (3) the county collects the fees and costs as provided
1-23 by Section 51.702;
1-24 (4) the court has at least the jurisdiction provided
1-25 by Section 25.0003; and
1-26 (5) except as provided by Subsection (f), the county
1-27 uses at least 50 percent of the amount the county receives each
1-28 state fiscal year under Section 25.0016 for salaries for the
1-29 statutory county court judges.
1-30 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36 passage, and it is so enacted.
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