1-1     By:  Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)               H.B. No. 3105

 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     Jurisprudence; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the supplemental salaries of judges of the district

 1-9     courts having jurisdiction in Midland County.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Sections 32.165(a) and (c), Government Code, are

1-12     amended to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  The Commissioners Court of Midland County shall [may]

1-14     pay the judges [judge] of the district courts having jurisdiction

1-15     in the county [142nd Judicial District] an annual supplemental

1-16     salary in an amount that complies with Section 659.012(c).  The

1-17     supplemental salary is [of not more than $3,600] for services

1-18     rendered and for performing administrative duties.

1-19           (c)  The supplemental salary shall be paid in monthly

1-20     installments from the general fund or other available fund of the

1-21     county.  [The Commissioners Court of Midland County shall pay the

1-22     judges of the 238th and 318th judicial districts a supplemental

1-23     salary in an amount equal to the supplement paid by the county to

1-24     the other district judge in the county.]

1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect October 1, 1997.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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