1-1     By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1719
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 22, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1719                   By:  Ellis
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the salary of a retired or former judge or justice
1-11     assigned to a district court.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Subsections (h) and (i), Sections 74.061,
1-14     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-15           (h)  Notwithstanding Subsection (c), the salary from the
1-16     state of a retired judge or justice assigned to a district court is
1-17     determined pro rata on the sum of the regular judge's salary from
1-18     the county plus 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.
1-25           (i)  Notwithstanding Subsection (d), the salary from the
1-26     state of a former judge or justice assigned to a district court is
1-27     determined pro rata on the greater of:
1-28                 (1)  the regular judge's salary from the state on
1-29     August 31, 1997; or
1-30                 (2)  85 percent of the regular judge's salary from the
1-31     state, or a greater percentage of that salary, not to exceed 100
1-32     percent, as established by the General Appropriations Act for any
1-33     fiscal year.
1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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