By Uher H.B. No. 2863
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the salary of a retired judge or justice assigned to a
1-3 district court.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsections (h) and (i), Section 74.061,
1-6 Government Code, are repealed.
1-7 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-13 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-14 Amend HB 2863, page 1, line 6, by striking "repealed" and
1-15 substituting "amended to read as follows":
1-16 (h) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), the salary from the
1-17 state of a retired judge or justice assigned to a district court is
1-18 determined pro rata on the sum of the regular judge's salary from
1-19 the county plus the greater of:
1-20 (1) the regular judge's salary from the state on
1-21 August 31, 1997; or
1-22 (2) 85 percent or a greater percentage not to exceed
1-23 100% of the regular judge's salary from the state as established by
1-24 the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year.
2-1 (i) Notwithstanding Subsection (d), the salary from the
2-2 state of a former judge or justice assigned to a district court is
2-3 determined pro rata on the greater of:
2-4 (1) the regular judge's salary from the state on
2-5 August 31, 1997; or
2-6 (2) 85 percent or a greater percentage not to exceed
2-7 100% of the regular judge's salary from the state as established by
2-8 the General Appropriations Act for any fiscal year.
2-9 Thompson