85R8629 PAM-D By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1434 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to compensation of county auditors and assistant auditors. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 152.905, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: (e) In setting the compensation for a county auditor or assistant auditor considered at a hearing under this section, the district judge or judges may not set the amount of compensation in an amount that is inconsistent with a wage and position classification plan adopted by the county. SECTION 2. For a county auditor or assistant auditor appointed before the effective date of this Act whose compensation does not conform to the person's position classification as provided by a wage and position classification plan adopted by the county that the person serves, the district judge or judges, in subsequent hearings setting the person's annual compensation, shall, without reducing the person's annual compensation, align the person's compensation with the wage and position classification plan adopted by the county. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.