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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