84R17943 CAE-F
By: Hughes H.B. No. 3365
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3365:
By: Laubenberg C.S.H.B. No. 3365
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the compensation and benefits of presiding judges of
administrative judicial regions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 74.051(b), (c), (d), and (e),
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a presiding judge
shall receive an annual [a] salary from the state that is 28 percent
of the annual state salary of a district judge [not to exceed
$33,000 a year. The Texas Judicial Council shall set the salary
biennially and, in arriving at the amount of the salary, shall
consider whether the presiding judge is active in administrative
duties, performs part time, or is a retired judge. The salary set
by the Texas Judicial Council shall be apportioned to each county in
the region according to the population of the counties comprising
the region and shall be paid through the county budget process].
(c) A presiding judge who is a retired or former district
judge or a retired appellate judge and who presides over an
administrative region with 30 or more district courts, statutory
county courts, and retired and former judges named on the list
maintained under Section 74.055 for the administrative region is
entitled to an annual salary from the state for each fiscal year as
follows:
Number of Courts and Judges Percent of a District
Judge State Salary
30 to 49 28 percent [$35,000]
50 to 69 32 percent [$40,000]
70 to 89 36 percent [$45,000]
90 to 109 40 percent
110 to 129 44 percent
130 to 149 48 percent
150 to 169 52 percent
170 to 189 56 percent
190 or more 60 percent [$50,000]
(d) A retiree judge appointed to serve as a presiding judge
under Section 74.005 does not resume service as a judicial officer
for purposes of Sections 832.102 and 837.102, and the retiree's
annuity payments will not be suspended [The salary shall be
apportioned to each county in the region according to the
population of the counties comprising the region].
(e) A former judge appointed to serve as a presiding judge
under Section 74.005 is entitled to service credit in the Judicial
Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the Judicial Retirement
System of Texas Plan Two in which the judge is a member for each
month in which the former judge serves as a presiding judge [Each
county comprising the administrative region shall pay annually to
the presiding judge, out of the officers' salary fund or the general
fund of the county, the amount of the salary apportioned to it as
provided by this section and the other expenses authorized by this
chapter that are not paid by state appropriations. The presiding
judge shall place each county's payment of salary and other
expenses in an administrative fund, from which the salary and other
expenses shall be paid. The salary shall be paid from the
administrative fund in 12 equal monthly payments].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.