1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1229
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 27, 1999,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
1-5 April 27, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the compensation of presiding judges of administrative
1-9 judicial regions.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 74.051,
1-12 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a presiding judge
1-14 shall receive a salary not to exceed $23,000 [$18,000] a year. The
1-15 Texas Judicial Council shall set the salary biennially and, in
1-16 arriving at the amount of the salary, shall consider whether the
1-17 presiding judge is active in administrative duties, performs part
1-18 time, or is a retired judge. The salary set by the Texas Judicial
1-19 Council shall be apportioned to each county in the region according
1-20 to the population of the counties comprising the region and shall
1-21 be paid through the county budget process.
1-22 (c) A presiding judge who is a retired or former district
1-23 judge or a retired appellate judge and who presides over an
1-24 administrative region with 30 or more district courts, statutory
1-25 county courts, and retired and former judges named on the list
1-26 maintained under Section 74.055 for the administrative region is
1-27 entitled to an annual salary for each fiscal year as follows:
1-28 Number of Courts and Judges Salary
1-29 30 to 49 $25,000 [$20,000]
1-30 50 to 69 $30,000 [$25,000]
1-31 70 to 89 $35,000 [$30,000]
1-32 90 or more $40,000 [$35,000]
1-33 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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