1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the supplemental salaries of judges of the district

 1-3     courts having jurisdiction in Midland County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 32.165(a) and (c), Government Code, are

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The Commissioners Court of Midland County shall [may]

 1-8     pay the judges [judge] of the district courts having jurisdiction

 1-9     in the county [142nd Judicial District] an annual supplemental

1-10     salary in an amount that complies with Section 659.012(c).  The

1-11     supplemental salary is [of not more than $3,600] for services

1-12     rendered and for performing administrative duties.

1-13           (c)  The supplemental salary shall be paid in monthly

1-14     installments from the general fund or other available fund of the

1-15     county.  [The Commissioners Court of Midland County shall pay the

1-16     judges of the 238th and 318th judicial districts a supplemental

1-17     salary in an amount equal to the supplement paid by the county to

1-18     the other district judge in the county.]

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     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. 3105 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3105 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor