Bill Text: TX SB1979 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the annual salary of a statutory probate judge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-19 - Referred to State Affairs [SB1979 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB1979-Introduced.html

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86R13282 SRS-D
By: Hughes S.B. No. 1979

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the annual salary of a statutory probate judge.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 25.0023, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
follows:
(a) Subject to Subsection (a-1), the [The] commissioners
court shall set the annual salary of each judge of a statutory
probate court at an amount that is at least equal to the total
annual salary received by a district judge in the county. A
district judge's or statutory probate court judge's total annual
salary includes contributions and supplements paid by the state or
a county, other than contributions received as compensation under
Section 25.0022(e).
(a-1) A judge of a statutory probate court is entitled to an
annual salary, not including contributions and supplements paid by
the state or county, in the amount that is equal to the salary to
which a district judge with the same number of years of service
credit in the Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan One or the
Judicial Retirement System of Texas Plan Two is entitled under
Section 659.012(b).
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the first pay period that begins on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019, but only
if S.B. 387, Acts of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019,
or similar legislation becomes law. If that bill or similar
legislation does not become law, this Act has no effect.