By Oliveira H.B. No. 3031
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the compensation of presiding judges of administrative
1-3 judicial regions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 74.051(b) and (c), Government Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a presiding judge
1-8 shall receive a salary not to exceed $23,000 [$18,000] a year. The
1-9 Texas Judicial Council shall set the salary biennially and, in
1-10 arriving at the amount of the salary, shall consider whether the
1-11 presiding judge is active in administrative duties, performs part
1-12 time, or is a retired judge. The salary set by the Texas Judicial
1-13 Council shall be apportioned to each county in the region according
1-14 to the population of the counties comprising the region and shall
1-15 be paid through the county budget process.
1-16 (c) A presiding judge who is a retired or former district
1-17 judge or a retired appellate judge and who presides over an
1-18 administrative region with 30 or more district courts, statutory
1-19 county courts, and retired and former judges named on the list
1-20 maintained under Section 74.055 for the administrative region is
1-21 entitled to an annual salary for each fiscal year as follows:
2-1 Number of Courts and Judges Salary
2-2 30 to 49 $25,000 [$20,000]
2-3 50 to 69 $30,000 [$25,000]
2-4 70 to 89 $35,000 [$30,000]
2-5 90 or more $40,000 [$35,000]
2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.