LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD

Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 78TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION

April 16, 2003

TO:	Honorable Robert Duncan, Chair, Senate Committee on Jurisprudence
FROM:	John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	SB1781 by Ogden (Relating to the supplemental salaries of judges of the district courts having jurisdiction in certain counties.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend Government Code, Chapter 32 to remove certain caps on supplemental salaries paid to district judges of Grimes, Madison, and Walker counties. The bill would repeal Sections 32.093(d), 32.145(d), 32.157(d), and 32.236(d) of the Government Code. These sections put a cap on the supplemental salary from all counties at $2,900 for district court judges with jurisdiction in Grimes, Leon, Madison, and Walker Counties.

The bill would take effect September 1, 2003.

Local Government Impact

Costs to Walker and Madison counties to implement the provisions of the bill would depend upon actions of the commissioner's courts of the counties. Any approved salary supplement to the judges of the district courts is not expected to be significant to the budgets of the affected counties.

Source Agencies:	212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
LBB Staff:	JK, GO, VDS, TB, KG