By Longoria H.B. No. 1451
75R4625 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the amount of compensation that must be paid to a
1-3 district clerk.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 152.012, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 152.012. MINIMUM AMOUNT OF SALARY. The commissioners
1-8 court may not set the salary of:
1-9 (1) an officer or employee at an amount less than the
1-10 amount of the salary in effect on January 1, 1972;
1-11 (2) [. The court may not set the salary of] a justice
1-12 of the peace at an amount less than the amount of the salary in
1-13 effect on May 25, 1973; or
1-14 (3) a district clerk at an amount less than 50 percent
1-15 of the total annual salary paid to the lowest paid district judge
1-16 in the county.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies to compensation paid by a county
1-18 beginning with the first county fiscal year that begins on or after
1-19 the effective date of this Act.
1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.