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:	SB1797 by Barrientos (Relating to the supplemental salaries of district judges in Travis County. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

No fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would amend Government Code, Section 32.227(a) to remove the supplemental salary cap for district judges in Travis County. The bill would also repeal Government Code, Section 32.227(c), which requires the salary of a district court judge in Travis County received from state and county sources to be at least $1,000 lower than the salary received from state and county sources by a justice of the court of appeals in the district in which Travis County is located. The bill would reenact Government Code, Section 32.227(a) relating to the discretion of Travis County commissioners to set salaries for local district judges.  The bill would take effect September 1, 2003.
 

Local Government Impact

Because the bill would not have statewide impact on units of local government of the same type or class, no comment from this office is required by the rules of the House/Senate as to its probable fiscal implication on units of local government.

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