1-1     By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 483

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1997; February 11, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     April 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the salary of an official court reporter.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 52.042, Government Code, is amended by

1-11     amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as

1-12     follows:

1-13           (c)  The official court reporter is entitled to receive his

1-14     regular salary while temporarily unable to perform his duties due

1-15     to other official work.  The official court reporter may not

1-16     receive salary under this subsection for more than 30 days each

1-17     year.

1-18           (d)  The salary of the official court reporter for absences

1-19     due to illness or unavoidable disability shall be determined in

1-20     accordance with the compensation and leave policies of the county

1-21     or counties responsible for payment of the official court

1-22     reporter's salary and Chapter 504, Labor Code.

1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.

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