1-1 By: Corte (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 2286
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;
1-3 April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the selection of public members and the functions of a
1-9 county salary grievance committee.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 152.014(a), Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) In each county there is a salary grievance committee
1-14 composed of the county judge and:
1-15 (1) the sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county
1-16 treasurer, county clerk, district clerk, county attorney or
1-17 criminal district attorney, and the number of public members
1-18 necessary to provide nine voting members; or
1-19 (2) nine public members, if the commissioners court
1-20 votes [on the second Monday] in January each year to have nine
1-21 public members.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 152.015(a), Local Government Code, is
1-23 amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) The public members of the salary grievance committee
1-25 shall be selected at a meeting of the court in [on the second
1-26 Monday of] January each year.
1-27 SECTION 3. Section 152.016(a), Local Government Code, is
1-28 amended to read as follows:
1-29 (a) An elected county or precinct officer who is aggrieved
1-30 by the setting of the officer's salary or personal expenses may
1-31 request a hearing before the salary grievance committee before the
1-32 approval of the county's annual budget. The request must:
1-33 (1) be in writing;
1-34 (2) be delivered to the committee chairman within five
1-35 days after the date the officer receives notice of the salary or
1-36 personal expenses; and
1-37 (3) state the desired change in salary or personal
1-38 expenses.
1-39 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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