Bill Text: TX HB3971 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the method used to calculate the salary of a state judge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3971 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3971-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Schofield, Zerwas | H.B. No. 3971 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3971: | |||
By: Schofield | C.S.H.B. No. 3971 |
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relating to the method used to calculate the salary of a state | ||
judge. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 659.012(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Notwithstanding Section 659.011: | ||
(1) a judge of a district court is entitled to an | ||
annual salary from the state that is equal to 82.5 percent of the | ||
salary of a justice of the supreme court other than the chief | ||
justice [ |
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district judge from state and county sources, including | ||
compensation for any extrajudicial services performed on behalf of | ||
the county, may not exceed the amount that is $5,000 less than the | ||
salary provided for a justice of a court of appeals other than a | ||
chief justice; | ||
(2) a justice of a court of appeals other than the | ||
chief justice is entitled to an annual salary from the state that is | ||
equal to 91 [ |
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court other than the chief justice [ |
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the combined salary of a justice of the court of appeals other than | ||
the chief justice from all state and county sources, including | ||
compensation for any extrajudicial services performed on behalf of | ||
the county, may not exceed the amount that is $5,000 less than the | ||
salary provided for a justice of the supreme court other than the | ||
chief justice; | ||
(3) a justice of the supreme court other than the chief | ||
justice or a judge of the court of criminal appeals other than the | ||
presiding judge is entitled to an annual salary from the state that | ||
is the amount as determined by Section 659.0121 [ |
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(4) the chief justice or presiding judge of an | ||
appellate court is entitled to an annual salary from the state that | ||
is $2,500 more than the salary provided for the other justices or | ||
judges of the court, except that the combined salary of the chief | ||
justice of a court of appeals may not exceed the amount that is | ||
$2,500 less than the salary provided for a justice of the supreme | ||
court other than the chief justice. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 659, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 659.0121 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 659.0121. DETERMINATION OF JUDICIAL SALARIES. (a) | ||
The salary of a justice of the supreme court other than the chief | ||
justice is equal to the sum of: | ||
(1) one-third of the average salary on January 1 of | ||
justices, other than chief justices, on the highest appellate | ||
courts of the nine most populous states as determined by the | ||
decennial census, not including Texas; | ||
(2) one-third of the salary on January 1 of a judge of | ||
a United States Court of Appeals; and | ||
(3) one-third of the average starting base salary on | ||
January 1 of first-year associate attorneys employed in this state | ||
with the five private law firms with the largest number of attorneys | ||
licensed in this state. | ||
(b) The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial | ||
System shall collect and provide to the Legislative Budget Board | ||
the information required by Subsections (a)(1) and (2) not later | ||
than February 1 of each year. | ||
(c) The State Bar of Texas shall collect and provide to the | ||
Legislative Budget Board the information required by Subsection | ||
(a)(3) not later than February 1 of each year. | ||
(d) The Legislative Budget Board shall calculate the salary | ||
under Subsection (a) based on the information collected and | ||
provided to the board under Subsection (b) and provide the amount to | ||
the comptroller not later than March 1 of each year. | ||
(e) On October 1 of each year, the comptroller shall adjust | ||
all salaries paid by the state under Section 659.012 based on the | ||
amount provided by the Legislative Budget Board under Subsection | ||
(d). | ||
(f) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the adjusted salary | ||
under Subsection (e) may not increase by more than four percent per | ||
year or by the inflation rate during the previous calendar year, as | ||
determined by the comptroller on the basis of changes in the United | ||
States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for All | ||
Urban Consumers, whichever is higher. | ||
(g) Not later than May 1 of each year, the comptroller shall | ||
publish in the Texas Register a list of all salaries to be paid | ||
under Section 659.012 beginning on the following October 1. | ||
SECTION 3. Chapter 35, Government Code, is repealed | ||
effective August 31, 2021. | ||
SECTION 4. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |