1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the salary of the county judge of Dallas County.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 152.904, Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 1-6           (f)  The commissioners court of Dallas County shall set the
 1-7     annual salary of the county judge at an amount that is not less
 1-8     than $1,000 more than the total annual salary received by a county
 1-9     criminal court at law judge in the county.  The salary shall be
1-10     paid in 12 equal monthly installments.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-12     to a salary of the county judge in Dallas County that is set by the
1-13     commissioners court on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2536 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 2536 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