83R26557 SCL-D
By: Coleman H.B. No. 3793
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to powers, duties, and services of counties and entities
serving counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.0005(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) The salary shall be paid in:
(1) equal monthly installments; or
(2) equal biweekly installments if authorized by the
commissioners court.
SECTION 2. Section 31.004, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 31.004. EQUAL [MONTHLY] INSTALLMENTS. The
compensation authorized by this chapter shall be paid in:
(1) equal monthly installments; or
(2) equal biweekly installments if authorized by the
commissioners courts in the counties of the court of appeals
district.
SECTION 3. Section 32.001(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The compensation shall be paid [in monthly
installments] from the county general fund or other available funds
of the county in:
(1) monthly installments; or
(2) biweekly installments if authorized by the
commissioners court.
SECTION 4. Section 43.180(e), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) The Commissioners Court of Harris County shall pay the
district attorney a salary of not less than $35,000 a year. The
county salary shall be paid in equal biweekly [monthly]
installments.
SECTION 5. Section 61.036, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Regardless of the application, documentation, and
verification procedures or eligibility standards established by
the department under Subchapter A, a county may credit an
intergovernmental transfer to the state toward eligibility for
state assistance if the transfer was made:
(1) to provide health care services as part of a waiver
program under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315 or 1396n; or
(2) as part of the state plan for disproportionate
share hospitals under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-4 or 1 T.A.C. Section
355.8065.
(e) A county may not credit toward eligibility for state
assistance any intergovernmental transfer made under Subsection
(d)(1) or (2) that, separately or in combination, exceeds six
percent of the county's general revenue levy in any state fiscal
year.
SECTION 6. Section 152.904(e), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) The Commissioners Court of Harris County shall set the
annual salary of the county judge at an amount that is not less than
$1,000 more than the total annual salary received by county
criminal court at law judges in the county. The salary shall be
paid in [12] equal biweekly [monthly] installments.
SECTION 7. Section 209.004, Property Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) The county clerk of each county in which a management
certificate is filed as required by this section shall record the
management certificate in the real property records of the county
and index the document as a "Property Owners' Association
Management Certificate."
SECTION 8. (a) The change in law made by this Act to Section
61.036, Health and Safety Code, applies only to state assistance
for health care services under Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code,
as amended by this Act, that are delivered on or after the effective
date of this Act. State assistance for health care services under
Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, that are delivered before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
(b) To ensure that all management certificates are recorded
and indexed in accordance with Section 209.004(a-1), Property Code,
as added by this Act, on or after September 1, 2013, and not later
than January 1, 2014, each property owners' association that is
subject to Section 209.004, Property Code, immediately before
September 1, 2013, shall file the association's management
certificate under that section, regardless of whether the
association filed a management certificate before September 1,
2013. This section does not affect the time in which a property
owners' association is required to file the association's
management certificate under Section 209.004, Property Code, as
amended by this Act, if the association's initial duty to file the
management certificate arises on or after September 1, 2013.
SECTION 9. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.