83R23416 RWG-D
By: Raymond H.B. No. 1710
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1710:
By: King of Hemphill C.S.H.B. No. 1710
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a cost-of-living increase in compensation for district
judges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 32,
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER A. ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION PAID BY COUNTY
[FOR EXTRAJUDICIAL SERVICES]
SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 32, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 32.002 to read as follows:
Sec. 32.002. COST-OF-LIVING INCREASE. (a) If the state has
not increased the state salary paid to a district judge during the
preceding three-year period, the commissioners court of a county
may pay each judge of a district court having jurisdiction in the
county an annual cost-of-living increase in an amount not to exceed
10 percent of the judge's combined salary from state and county
sources. Notwithstanding any other law, compensation paid to a
judge under this section is not included as part of the judge's
combined salary from state and county sources for purposes of the
salary limitations provided by Section 659.012.
(b) If, after a commissioners court of a county begins
paying a cost-of-living increase under this section, the state
increases the state salary paid to a district judge by an amount
equal to or greater than the cost-of-living increase paid by the
county, the commissioners court of the county shall stop paying the
cost-of-living increase.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2014.