By Longoria                                     H.B. No. 1451

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                                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.