By Nelson                                        S.B. No. 483

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the salary of an official court reporter.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 52.042, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (c)  The official court reporter is entitled to receive his

 1-8     regular salary while temporarily unable to perform his duties due

 1-9     to other official work.  The official court reporter may not

1-10     receive salary under this subsection for more than 30 days each

1-11     year.

1-12           (d)  The salary of the official court reporter for absences

1-13     due to illness or unavoidable disability shall be determined in

1-14     accordance with the compensation and leave policies of the county

1-15     or counties responsible for payment of the official court

1-16     reporter's salary and Chapter 504, Labor Code.

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.