By Jones of Lubbock H.B. No. 644
77R859 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an election to abolish a county's salary grievance
1-3 committee.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 152, Local Government Code,
1-6 is amended by adding Section 152.0165 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 152.0165. ELECTION TO ABOLISH SALARY GRIEVANCE
1-8 COMMITTEE. (a) The commissioners court by order may call an
1-9 election on the question of whether the county's salary grievance
1-10 committee should be abolished.
1-11 (b) The election shall be held on the first authorized
1-12 uniform election date prescribed by Chapter 41, Election Code, that
1-13 occurs after the date the commissioners court calls the election
1-14 and that allows sufficient time to comply with the other
1-15 requirements of law.
1-16 (c) The ballot for the election shall be printed to provide
1-17 for voting for or against the proposition: "Abolition of the
1-18 county salary grievance committee."
1-19 (d) If a majority of the qualified voters voting on the
1-20 proposition at the election approve the proposition, the
1-21 commissioners court by order shall abolish the salary grievance
1-22 committee. Except as provided by Subsection (e), the abolition
1-23 takes effect immediately. A copy of the order abolishing the
1-24 committee shall be placed in the minutes of the court's
2-1 proceedings.
2-2 (e) If a county or precinct officer requests a hearing under
2-3 Section 152.016 on or before the date of an election approving the
2-4 abolition of the salary grievance committee, the abolition may not
2-5 take effect until the committee completes its functions related to
2-6 the hearing.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 152.014(a), Local Government Code, is
2-8 amended to read as follows:
2-9 (a) Subject to Section 152.0165, in [In] each county there
2-10 is a salary grievance committee composed of the county judge and:
2-11 (1) the sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county
2-12 treasurer, county clerk, district clerk, county attorney or
2-13 criminal district attorney, and the number of public members
2-14 necessary to provide nine voting members; or
2-15 (2) nine public members, if the commissioners court
2-16 votes in January each year to have nine public members.
2-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-18 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-19 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-20 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-21 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.