Bill Text: TX SB824 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to compensation of certain justices and judges for performing extrajudicial services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB824 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB824-Comm_Sub.html
  85R32514 CAE-D
 
  By: Burton S.B. No. 824
 
  (Capriglione)
 
  Substitute the following for S.B. No. 824:  No.
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to compensation of certain justices and judges for
  performing extrajudicial services.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 659.012, Government Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
  follows:
         (a)  Notwithstanding Section 659.011 and except as provided
  by Subsection (a-1):
               (1)  a judge of a district court is entitled to an
  annual salary from the state of at least $125,000, except that the
  combined salary of a 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 110 percent of the salary of a district judge, except that
  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;
               (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 equal to 120 percent of the salary of a district judge; and
               (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.
         (a-1)  This subsection applies only to a court located in a
  county with a population of 1.8 million or more that is adjacent to
  a county with a population of 2.2 million or more.  Notwithstanding
  Section 659.011 and Subsection (a):
               (1)  a judge of a district court is entitled to an
  annual salary from the state of at least $125,000, except that the
  combined salary of a district judge from state and county sources,
  not 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; and
               (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 110 percent of the salary of a district judge, except that
  the combined salary of a justice of the court of appeals other than
  the chief justice from all state and county sources, not 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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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