Bill Text: TX HB1222 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the annual salaries of the chief justice or the presiding judge of an appellate court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1222 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1222-Introduced.html
  86R8324 TSS-D
 
  By: Wray H.B. No. 1222
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the annual salaries of the chief justice or the
  presiding judge of an appellate court.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 659.012(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  Notwithstanding Section 659.011:
               (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 a court
  of appeals [an appellate court] is entitled to an annual salary from
  the state that is $5,000 [$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; and
               (5)  the chief justice of the supreme court or the
  presiding judge of the court of criminal appeals is entitled to an
  annual salary from the state that is $10,000 more than the salary
  provided for the other justices or judges of the court.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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