1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the selection of public members and the functions of a

 1-3     county salary grievance committee.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 152.014(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  In each county there is a salary grievance committee

 1-8     composed of the county judge and:

 1-9                 (1)  the sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county

1-10     treasurer, county clerk, district clerk, county attorney or

1-11     criminal district attorney, and the number of public members

1-12     necessary to provide nine voting members; or

1-13                 (2)  nine public members, if the commissioners court

1-14     votes [on the second Monday] in January each year to have nine

1-15     public members.

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 152.015(a), Local Government Code, is

1-17     amended to read as follows:

1-18           (a)  The public members of the salary grievance committee

1-19     shall be selected at a meeting of the court in [on the second

1-20     Monday of] January each year.

1-21           SECTION 3.  Section 152.016(a), Local Government Code, is

1-22     amended to read as follows:

1-23           (a)  An elected county or precinct officer who is aggrieved

1-24     by the setting of the officer's salary or personal expenses may

 2-1     request a hearing before the salary grievance committee before the

 2-2     approval of the county's annual budget.  The request must:

 2-3                 (1)  be in writing;

 2-4                 (2)  be delivered to the committee chairman within five

 2-5     days after the date the officer receives notice of the salary or

 2-6     personal expenses; and

 2-7                 (3)  state the desired change in salary or personal

 2-8     expenses.

 2-9           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2286 was passed by the House on April

         18, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2286 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor