By Goodman                                            H.B. No. 3560

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to salary supplements from the state for certain county

 1-3     attorneys and county judges.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 26, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 26.006 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 26.006.  SALARY SUPPLEMENT FROM STATE FOR CERTAIN COUNTY

 1-8     JUDGES.  (a)  A county judge is entitled to an annual salary

 1-9     supplement from the state of $5,000 if at least 40 percent of the

1-10     functions that the judge performs are judicial functions.

1-11           (b)  To receive a supplement under Subsection (a), a county

1-12     judge must file with the Office of Court Administration of the

1-13     Texas Judicial System an affidavit stating that at least 40 percent

1-14     of the functions that the judge performs are judicial functions.

1-15     The office of court administration shall send the affidavit to the

1-16     comptroller.

1-17           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 45, Government Code, is

1-18     amended by adding Section 45.003 to read as follows:

1-19           Sec. 45.003.  SALARY SUPPLEMENT FROM STATE.  A county

1-20     attorney, other than a county attorney who represents the state in

1-21     district court, is entitled to an annual salary supplement from the

1-22     state of $2,500.

1-23           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.