Bill Text: TX SB802 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the annual base salary of a district judge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Finance [SB802 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB802-Introduced.html
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| By: Hughes | S.B. No. 802 | |
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| relating to the annual base salary of a district 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 and subject to | ||
| Subsections (b) and (b-1): | ||
| (1) a judge of a district court is entitled to an | ||
| annual base salary from the state as set by the General | ||
| Appropriations Act in an amount equal to at least $172,494 | ||
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| judge 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 maximum combined | ||
| base salary from all state and county sources for a justice of a | ||
| court of appeals other than a chief justice as determined under this | ||
| subsection; | ||
| (2) a justice of a court of appeals other than the | ||
| chief justice is entitled to an annual base salary from the state in | ||
| the amount equal to 110 percent of the state base salary of a | ||
| district judge as set by the General Appropriations Act, except | ||
| that the combined base 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 base salary for a justice of the supreme court as | ||
| determined under this subsection; | ||
| (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 base salary from the state | ||
| in the amount equal to 120 percent of the state base salary of a | ||
| district judge as set by the General Appropriations Act; and | ||
| (4) the chief justice or presiding judge of an | ||
| appellate court is entitled to an annual base salary from the state | ||
| in the amount equal to $2,500 more than the state base salary | ||
| provided for the other justices or judges of the court, except that | ||
| the combined base salary of the chief justice of a court of appeals | ||
| from all state and county sources may not exceed the amount equal to | ||
| $2,500 less than the base salary for a justice of the supreme court | ||
| as determined under this subsection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 659.012(a), Government | ||
| Code, as amended by this Act, a judge of a district court is | ||
| entitled to an annual base salary from the state as set by the | ||
| General Appropriations Act in an amount equal to at least $155,400 | ||
| for the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2023, and ending | ||
| August 31, 2024, and that amount is the annual base salary to be | ||
| used for purpose of calculating any other judicial salaries by | ||
| reference to that section for the state fiscal year beginning | ||
| September 1, 2023, and ending August 31, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
