Bill Text: TX SB2310 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to longevity pay for certain prosecutors.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB2310 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2310-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2310 | ||
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| relating to longevity pay for certain prosecutors. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 41.013, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 41.013. COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN PROSECUTORS. Except | ||
| as otherwise provided by law, a district attorney or criminal | ||
| district attorney is entitled to receive from the state: | ||
| (1) annual compensation in an amount equal to at least | ||
| 80 percent of the state annual salary as set by the General | ||
| Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012 paid to a | ||
| district judge with comparable years of service as the district | ||
| attorney or criminal district attorney; and | ||
| (2) a monthly amount of longevity pay based on the | ||
| district attorney's or criminal district attorney's years of | ||
| service that would be paid to the district attorney or criminal | ||
| district attorney under Section 659.0445 if the district attorney | ||
| or criminal district attorney were a judge or justice described by | ||
| Section 659.0445(a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 46.003(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The state prosecuting attorney and each state | ||
| prosecutor is entitled to receive from the state: | ||
| (1) a salary in an amount equal to the state annual | ||
| salary as set by the General Appropriations Act in accordance with | ||
| Section 659.012 paid to a district judge with comparable years of | ||
| service as the state prosecuting attorney or state prosecutor; and | ||
| (2) a monthly amount of longevity pay based on the | ||
| state prosecuting attorney's or state prosecutor's years of service | ||
| that would be paid to the state prosecuting attorney or state | ||
| prosecutor under Section 659.0445 if the state prosecuting attorney | ||
| or state prosecutor were a judge or justice described by Section | ||
| 659.0445(a). | ||
| SECTION 3. Sections 41.013 and 46.003(a), Government Code, | ||
| as amended by this Act, apply beginning with the first pay period | ||
| that begins on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2310 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 6, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2310 passed the House on | ||
| May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 128, Nays 15, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
