1-1     By:  McCall, Madden, Denny (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 1974

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the payment of a supplemental salary to the district

1-10     judges in Collin County and validation of certain prior acts of the

1-11     commissioners court.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 32, Government Code, is

1-14     amended by adding Section 32.043 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 32.043.  COLLIN COUNTY.  (a) The Commissioners Court of

1-16     Collin County may budget for and pay the judges of the district

1-17     courts having jurisdiction in the county an annual salary set by

1-18     the commissioners court for services rendered and for performing

1-19     administrative services.

1-20           (b)  The salary shall be paid in equal biweekly or monthly

1-21     installments from the county general fund or other available fund.

1-22           (c)  The salary is in addition to the salary paid by the

1-23     state and other authorized compensation.

1-24           (d)  The combined yearly salary from state and county sources

1-25     received by each judge  may not exceed an amount equal to $1,000

1-26     less than the highest combined yearly salary from state and county

1-27     sources received by a justice of the court of appeals in the court

1-28     of appeals district in which the judicial district is located.

1-29           SECTION 2.  All prior acts by the Commissioners Court of

1-30     Collin County in budgeting for and paying the judges of the

1-31     district courts having jurisdiction in the county a reasonable

1-32     salary for services rendered and for performing administrative

1-33     services are validated as of the dates on which those acts

1-34     occurred. This section does not apply to a prior act that on the

1-35     effective date of this Act:

1-36                 (1)  is involved in litigation, if the litigation

1-37     ultimately results in the prior act being held invalid by a final

1-38     judgment of a court; or

1-39                 (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a

1-40     court.

1-41           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.

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