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 1-6     Government Code, are repealed.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1-14           Amend HB 2863, page 1, line 6, by striking "repealed" and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