By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1719
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the salary of a retired or former judge or justice
 1-2     assigned to a district court.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsections (h) and (i), Section 74.061,
 1-5     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (h)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c), the salary from the
 1-7     state of a retired judge or justice assigned to a district court is
 1-8     determined pro rata on the sum of the regular judge's salary from
 1-9     the county plus the greater of:
1-10                 (1)  the regular judge's salary from the state on
1-11     August 31, 1997; or
1-12                 (2)  85 percent of the regular judge's salary from the
1-13     state, or a greater percentage of that salary, not to exceed 100
1-14     percent, as established by the General Appropriations Act for any
1-15     fiscal year.
1-16           (i)  Notwithstanding Subsection (d), the salary from the
1-17     state of a former judge or justice assigned to a district court is
1-18     determined pro rata on the greater of:
1-19                 (1)  the regular judge's salary from the state on
1-20     August 31, 1997; or
1-21                 (2)  85 percent of the regular judge's salary from the
1-22     state, or a greater percentage of that salary, not to exceed 100
1-23     percent, as established by the General Appropriations Act for any
1-24     fiscal year.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.