1-1     By:  Davis of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - West)          H.B. No. 2536
 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
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the salary of the county judge of Dallas County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 152.904, Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13           (f)  The commissioners court of Dallas County shall set the
1-14     annual salary of the county judge at an amount that is not less
1-15     than $1,000 more than the total annual salary received by a county
1-16     criminal court at law judge in the county.  The salary shall be
1-17     paid in 12 equal monthly installments.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-19     to a salary of the county judge in Dallas County that is set by the
1-20     commissioners court on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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