Bill Text: TX HB204 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the total annual salary from state and county sources for certain state prosecutors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB204 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB204-Introduced.html
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| By: Tepper | H.B. No. 204 | |
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| relating to the total annual salary from state and county sources | ||
| for certain state prosecutors. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 46.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) and except as provided | ||
| by Subsection (c-1), if the amount of a state prosecutor's total | ||
| annual salary from state and county sources exceeds the amount of | ||
| the maximum combined base salary from all state and county sources | ||
| provided by Section 659.012 for a district judge with comparable | ||
| years of service as the state prosecutor, the comptroller shall | ||
| reduce the state prosecutor's state annual salary by the amount | ||
| equal to the excess amount, except that the comptroller may not | ||
| reduce the state prosecutor's state annual salary to an amount that | ||
| is less than the state base salary paid to a district judge as set by | ||
| the General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section | ||
| 659.012(a). | ||
| (c-1) The limitation on the amount of a state prosecutor's | ||
| total annual salary under Subsection (c) does not apply to the | ||
| salary paid to a district attorney of a judicial district that | ||
| includes a county with a population of less than 400,000. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
