AN ACT
1-1 relating to the compensation of presiding judges of administrative
1-2 judicial regions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 74.051,
1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a presiding judge
1-7 shall receive a salary not to exceed $23,000 [$18,000] a year. The
1-8 Texas Judicial Council shall set the salary biennially and, in
1-9 arriving at the amount of the salary, shall consider whether the
1-10 presiding judge is active in administrative duties, performs part
1-11 time, or is a retired judge. The salary set by the Texas Judicial
1-12 Council shall be apportioned to each county in the region according
1-13 to the population of the counties comprising the region and shall
1-14 be paid through the county budget process.
1-15 (c) A presiding judge who is a retired or former district
1-16 judge or a retired appellate judge and who presides over an
1-17 administrative region with 30 or more district courts, statutory
1-18 county courts, and retired and former judges named on the list
1-19 maintained under Section 74.055 for the administrative region is
1-20 entitled to an annual salary for each fiscal year as follows:
1-21 Number of Courts and Judges Salary
1-22 30 to 49 $25,000 [$20,000]
1-23 50 to 69 $30,000 [$25,000]
1-24 70 to 89 $35,000 [$30,000]
2-1 90 or more $40,000 [$35,000]
2-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1229 passed the Senate on
May 6, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1229 passed the House on
May 12, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor