1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the payment of a supplemental salary to the district

 1-3     judges in Collin County and validation of certain prior acts of the

 1-4     commissioners court.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 32, Government Code, is

 1-7     amended by adding Section 32.043 to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 32.043.  COLLIN COUNTY.  (a) The Commissioners Court of

 1-9     Collin County may budget for and pay the judges of the district

1-10     courts having jurisdiction in the county an annual salary set by

1-11     the commissioners court for services rendered and for performing

1-12     administrative services.

1-13           (b)  The salary shall be paid in equal biweekly or monthly

1-14     installments from the county general fund or other available fund.

1-15           (c)  The salary is in addition to the salary paid by the

1-16     state and other authorized compensation.

1-17           (d)  The combined yearly salary from state and county sources

1-18     received by each judge  may not exceed an amount equal to $1,000

1-19     less than the highest combined yearly salary from state and county

1-20     sources received by a justice of the court of appeals in the court

1-21     of appeals district in which the judicial district is located.

1-22           SECTION 2.  All prior acts by the Commissioners Court of

1-23     Collin County in budgeting for and paying the judges of the

1-24     district courts having jurisdiction in the county a reasonable

 2-1     salary for services rendered and for performing administrative

 2-2     services are validated as of the dates on which those acts

 2-3     occurred. This section does not apply to a prior act that on the

 2-4     effective date of this Act:

 2-5                 (1)  is involved in litigation, if the litigation

 2-6     ultimately results in the prior act being held invalid by a final

 2-7     judgment of a court; or

 2-8                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a

 2-9     court.

2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-16     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1974 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1974 was passed by the Senate on May

         22, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor