By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 336
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to certain lump-sum payments that are part of a county
 1-2     employee's compensation.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 152.011, Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 152.011.  COMPENSATION AMOUNT AND TYPE SET BY
 1-7     COMMISSIONERS COURT.  (a)  The commissioners court of a county
 1-8     shall set the amount of the compensation, office and travel
 1-9     expenses, and all other allowances for county and precinct officers
1-10     and employees who are paid wholly from county funds.
1-11           (b)  In an order setting the amount of compensation, the
1-12     commissioners court may include an allowance for a lump-sum payment
1-13     that is not part of a base salary for the purpose of recruitment,
1-14     retention, or rewarding performance.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.