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COURT REPORTER
suspended; and that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, February 6, 1963, by a viva voce vote; May 6, 1963,
Senate concurred in House amendments by a viva voce vote; passed
the House, May 1, 1963, with amendments: Yeas 140, Nays 0.
Approved May 18, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.
COURT REPORTER-121ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT--
COMPENSATION
CHAPTER 1729
S. B. No. 127
An Act relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salary of the official short-
hand reporter for the 121st Judicial District of Texas; and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
Section 1. From and after the passage of this Act the official short-
hand reporter for the 121st Judicial District of Texas, composed of the
counties of Hockley, Terry, Yoakum and Cochran, shall receive a salary
of not less than Six Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($6,600) per annum,
nor more than Nine Thousand Dollars ($9,000) per annum, which shall be
determined, fixed and set by the judge of said district; and from and after
the time that said judge shall have entered an order in the minutes of
the court, in each county of said district, which order shall be a public
record and open for inspection, stating specifically the amount of salary
to be paid to said reporter, and shall have filed a copy of said order with
each Commissioners Court of the district, the salary so determined, fixed
and set shall be paid monthly, by and in the proportion for each county of
the district as provided by law, out of the general fund, or out of the jury
fund, or out of any fund available for the purpose.
Sec. 2. From and after the passage of this Act, all provisions of the
law relating to the appointment, qualifications and duties of official short-
hand reporters in this state, and as to allowances to them of transcript
fees and hotel and traveling expenses, shall govern, save and except that
when the salary of the official shorthand reporter for the 121st Judicial
District shall have been determined, fixed and set by the judge of said dis-
trict, in the manner and within the amount limits as in this Act provided,
said salary shall be paid to said official shorthand reporter as in this Act
provided, and not otherwise.
Sec. 3. The fact that the official shorthand reporter of the 121st
District Court is paid a salary which is below the present standard for
comparable services; the further fact that the cost of living has materially
increased; that economic conditions have brought about increases in
prices of all commodities, and that an adjustment in salary is necessary
at once, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each
9. Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. art. 2326J--20.Ch. 172
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Tex.Sess.L. '63 Bd.Vol.--52
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