By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1740 75R6359 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the salaries of the members of the commissioners court 1-3 of certain counties. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 152, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 152.9045 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 152.9045. SALARY OF COUNTY JUDGE AND COUNTY 1-8 COMMISSIONERS IN POPULOUS COUNTY. (a) This section applies only 1-9 to a county with a population of more than 250,000. 1-10 (b) The commissioners court of the county shall pay the 1-11 county judge a total annual salary of at least an amount equal to 1-12 $5,000 less than the amount of the base salary paid by the state to 1-13 a district judge. 1-14 (c) The commissioners court of the county shall pay a county 1-15 commissioner a total annual salary of at least an amount equal to 1-16 $5,000 less than the amount of the total annual salary paid to the 1-17 county judge under Subsection (b). 1-18 SECTION 2. Sections 152.904(b) and (e), Local Government 1-19 Code, are repealed. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-21 applies only to the payment of a salary in a fiscal year of a 1-22 county beginning on or after that date. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.