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.