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.