1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the compensation of criminal law magistrates in Travis
 1-3     County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.973(b), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  The salary may not be less than the salary authorized to
 1-8     be paid to a master for family law cases appointed under Subchapter
 1-9     A, Chapter 201, Family Code, unless a lesser salary is recommended
1-10     by the judges described by Section 54.971 and approved by the
1-11     commissioners court.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     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. 1896 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1896 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor