1-1     By:  Keel, Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)     H.B. No. 1896
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the compensation of criminal law magistrates in Travis
 1-9     County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 54.973(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (b)  The salary may not be less than the salary authorized to
1-14     be paid to a master for family law cases appointed under Subchapter
1-15     A, Chapter 201, Family Code, unless a lesser salary is recommended
1-16     by the judges described by Section 54.971 and approved by the
1-17     commissioners court.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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