84R10864 LED-F
By: Smithee, Murr, Cook, et al. H.B. No. 2774
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the annual state salary supplement for certain county
judges.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.006(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A county judge is entitled to an annual salary
supplement from the state in an amount equal to 25 percent of the
amount appropriated for the annual salary of a district judge in the
General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012(a)
[of $15,000] if at least 40 percent of the functions that the county
judge performs are judicial functions.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act take effect
on the effective date of this Act and apply only to a salary payment
for a pay period beginning on or after that date. A salary payment
for a pay period beginning before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the pay period began, and
that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.