TO: | Honorable Jeff Wentworth, Chair, Senate Committee on Jurisprudence |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | SB2469 by Hinojosa (Relating to the creation of two additional county courts at law in Hidalgo County.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2010 | $0 |
2011 | $0 |
2012 | $0 |
2013 | $0 |
2014 | $0 |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from Judicial Fund 573 |
Probable Revenue Gain from Judicial Fund 573 |
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2010 | $0 | $0 |
2011 | $0 | $0 |
2012 | ($75,000) | $75,000 |
2013 | ($150,000) | $150,000 |
2014 | ($150,000) | $150,000 |
The bill would amend the Government Code to create two new County Courts at Law in Hidalgo
The annual recurring cost to the state per county court at law would be $75,000 from Judicial Fund No. 573. Under current law, the state provides a county-court-at-law judge a salary supplement an amount equal to 60 percent of the state salary of a district judge ($75,000).
Also, the salary supplement program for county court at law judges is funded from fees and court costs collected by county courts at law statewide and deposited into the Judicial Fund No. 573. This estimate assumes that the County Courts at Law in Hidalgo
Local governments pay the other operating costs associated with a county court at law.
Source Agencies: | 212 Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council, 304 Comptroller of Public Accounts
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LBB Staff: | JOB, JP, TP, MN
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