1-1     By:  Jones of Bexar (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte)   H.B. No. 2751
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2001;
 1-3     May 1, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the amount of compensation and allowances for county
1-10     auditors.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 152.032, Local Government Code, is
1-13     amended to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 152.032.  LIMITATIONS ON COUNTY AUDITOR'S COMPENSATION
1-15     AND ALLOWANCES.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), the
1-16     [The] amount of the compensation and allowances of a county auditor
1-17     may not exceed the amount of the compensation and allowances
1-18     received from all sources by the highest paid elected county
1-19     officer, other than a judge of a statutory county court, whose
1-20     salary and allowances are set by the commissioners court.
1-21           (b)  This subsection applies only to a county that employs an
1-22     arena venue project manager hired as of March 7, 2001, and that has
1-23     a population of less than 1.4 million in which a municipality with
1-24     a population of more than one million is located.  The amount of
1-25     the compensation and allowances of a county auditor in a county
1-26     subject to this subsection may not exceed the amount of the
1-27     compensation and allowances received from all sources by the county
1-28     budget officer.  If the county hires a county budget officer at a
1-29     salary lower than the salary of the previous county budget officer,
1-30     the county auditor's salary may not be reduced on that basis.
1-31           (c)  A county auditor who was in office on August 31, 1987,
1-32     is entitled to be paid an annual salary not less than the annual
1-33     salary the auditor was being paid on that date.
1-34           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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