Bill Text: TX HB2723 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to the annual state salary supplement for certain county judges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2723 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2723-Comm_Sub.html
  88R8975 JTZ-D
 
  By: Dean H.B. No. 2723
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the annual state salary supplement for certain county
  judges.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 26.006(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  A county judge is entitled to an annual salary
  supplement from the state in an amount equal to 18 percent of the
  annual [state base] salary paid to a district judge with comparable
  years of service as the county judge as set by the General
  Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012 [659.012(a)]
  if at least 18 percent of the:
               (1)  functions that the judge performs are judicial
  functions; or
               (2)  total hours that the judge works are in the
  performance of judicial functions.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a salary payment for a pay period beginning on or after the
  effective date of this Act. A salary payment for a pay period
  beginning before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
  law in effect on the date the pay period began, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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