Amend CSHB 11 (Committee printing) by adding the following 

appropriately numbered section and renumbering subsequent sections 

of the bill accordingly:

	SECTION ___. Article IV, SB 1, Acts of the 79th Legislature, 

Regular Session, 2005, (the General Appropriations Act), is amended 

by adding the following appropriations:

SPECIAL PROVISIONS - JUDICIARY
Sec. 16. (a) Contingent on the Comptroller of Public Accounts issuing a finding of fact certifying additional revenue collections from fees and court costs during the 2006-07 biennium that exceed the Comptroller of Public Accounts Biennial Revenue Estimate for these items by at least $17,808,761 in fiscal year 2006 and $23,461,314 in fiscal year 2007, an amount estimated to be $34,551,073 out of the Judicial Fund No. 573 and an amount estimated to be $6,719,000 out of the General Revenue Fund are appropriated to the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, to fund the annual salary increase for judicial officers provided by HB 11, Acts of the 79th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2005, to begin on November 1, 2005, for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2006, and to begin on September 1, 2006, for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2007. (b) Any increase in employee benefits costs associated with the salary increase provided by HB 11, Acts of the 79th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 2005, and this section shall be paid only out of the appropriations made in Subsection (a) of this section, including $6,679,000 out of the General Revenue Fund for the purposes of funding the increased costs to the Judicial Retirement System - Plan I. (c) Provisions requiring salaries and benefits to be proportional to the source of funds shall apply to all sums allocated under this section, except as otherwise provided. Each court or agency shall pay the increase in compensation from funds held in the state treasury and from local funds in the same proportion as the employee's regular compensation. (d) The Comptroller of Public Accounts shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to administer this section. Funds appropriated in this section shall be allocated to each court or agency, and to the appropriate employee benefit appropriation items, in accordance with such rules and regulations and may be used only for the purpose of providing a salary increase and paying associated employee benefit costs. (e) In the appropriations to the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, made by SB 1, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, the Comptroller of Public Accounts shall increase appropriations out of the Judicial Fund No. 573 by $3,054,000 in fiscal year 2006 and by $3,665,000 in fiscal year 2007 for Strategy D.1.1, District Judges, and shall decrease the appropriations out of the General Revenue Fund for that strategy by those amounts. (f) The description for Strategy A.1.4, Local Administrative Judge Supplement in the bill pattern for the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, in SB 1, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, is replaced with the following description: Per Government Code, Section 659.012(d). (g) The amount of $20,000 out of the General Revenue Fund for each fiscal year is included in amounts appropriated in Subsection (a) of this section for the purposes of funding $5,000 salary supplements to additional judges eligible for such supplements under Section 659.012(d), Government Code. (h) The name and description for Strategy C.1.1, Constitutional County Judge General Revenue Supplement in the bill pattern for the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, in SB 1, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, is replaced with the following name and description: Constitutional County Judge General Revenue and Judicial Fund No. 573 Supplement: Salary supplement per Government Code, Section 26.006. Estimated. (h) An amount estimated to be $469,125 in fiscal year 2006 and an amount estimated to be $748,800 in fiscal year 2007 are included in amounts appropriated out of the Judicial Fund No. 573 to the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, by Subsection (a) of this section for additional district courts created on or after September 1, 2005, by SB 1189, Seventy-ninth Legislature, Regular Session, 2005.