By: West S.B. No. 1136
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the compensation of presiding judges of administrative
  judicial regions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 74.051(b), (c), (d), and (e),
  Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), a presiding judge
  shall receive an annual [a] salary from the state not to exceed that
  is 28 percent of the annual state salary of a district judge
  [$33,000 a year. The Texas Judicial Council shall set the salary
  biennially and, in arriving at the amount of the salary, shall
  consider whether the presiding judge is active in administrative
  duties, performs part time, or is a retired judge.     The salary set
  by the Texas Judicial Council shall be apportioned to each county in
  the region according to the population of the counties comprising
  the region and shall be paid through the county budget process].
         (c)  A presiding judge who is a retired or former district
  judge or a retired appellate judge and who presides over an
  administrative region with 30 or more district courts, statutory
  county courts, and retired and former judges named on the list
  maintained under Section 74.055 for the administrative region is
  entitled to an annual salary from the state for each fiscal year as
  follows:
 
    Number of Courts and Judges    Percent of a District    Judge State Salary
 
           30 to 49   28 percent [$35,000]
 
           50 to 69   32 percent [$40,000]
 
           70 to 89   36 percent [$45,000]
 
           90 [or more] to 109   40 percent [$50,000]
 
           110 to 129   44 percent
 
           130 to 149   48 percent
 
           150 to 169   52 percent
 
           170 to 189   56 percent
 
           190 or more   60 percent
         (d)  A retiree judge appointed to serve as a presiding judge
  under Section 74.005 does not resume service as a judicial officer
  for purposes of Sections 832.102 and 837.102, and the retiree's
  annuity payments will not be suspended [The salary shall be
  apportioned to each county in the region according to the
  population of the counties comprising the region].
         (e)  A former judge appointed to serve as a presiding judge
  under Section 74.005 is entitled to service credit in the Judicial
  Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
  System of Texas Plan Two in which the judge is a member for each
  month in which the former judge serves as a presiding judge [Each
  county comprising the administrative region shall pay annually to
  the presiding judge, out of the officers' salary fund or the general
  fund of the county, the amount of the salary apportioned to it as
  provided by this section and the other expenses authorized by this
  chapter that are not paid by state appropriations. The presiding
  judge shall place each county's payment of salary and other
  expenses in an administrative fund, from which the salary and other
  expenses shall be paid. The salary shall be paid from the
  administrative fund in 12 equal monthly payments].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.