1-1     By:  Madla                                             S.B. No. 336
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1999; February 3, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to certain lump-sum payments that are part of a county
 1-9     employee's compensation.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 152.011, Local Government Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 152.011.  COMPENSATION AMOUNT AND TYPE SET BY
1-14     COMMISSIONERS COURT.  (a)  The commissioners court of a county
1-15     shall set the amount of the compensation, office and travel
1-16     expenses, and all other allowances for county and precinct officers
1-17     and employees who are paid wholly from county funds.
1-18           (b)  In an order setting the amount of compensation, the
1-19     commissioners court may include an allowance for a lump-sum payment
1-20     that is not part of a base salary for the purpose of recruitment,
1-21     retention, or rewarding performance.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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