Amend CSHB 1 by adopting the following into Article XI:
____. Appropriations for Judicial Compensation. a. In addition to amounts appropriated elsewhere in Article IV, The Judiciary, an estimated amount of $9,810,922 each fiscal year is appropriated from general revenue to fund a five percent judicial pay increase and associated benefits costs for judicial offices and other court personnel linked to the salary of a district judge by statute. Funds appropriated in this section shall be allocated to each court or agency as appropriate.
Notwithstanding the annual salary for judicial officers specified in bill patterns for the courts and affected judicial agencies in the Schedule of Exempt Positions, the annual salaries for judicial officers and other court personnel linked to the salary of a district judge by statute are increased by this appropriation. The Comptroller of Public Accounts shall administer this section.
b. The following is an informational listing of the estimated allocation by agency:

For the Year Ending
Judicial Salaries
August 31, 2016
August 31, 2017
Supreme Court
$75,600
$75,600
Court of Criminal Appeals
$75,600
$75,600
First Court of Appeals, Houston
$69,300
$69,300
Second Court of Appeals, Fort Worth
$53,900
$53,900
Third Court of Appeals, Austin
$46,200
$46,200
Fourth Court of Appeals, San Antonio
$53,900
$53,900
Fifth Court of Appeals, Dallas
$100,100
$100,100
Sixth Court of Appeals, Texarkana
$23,100
$23,100
Seventh Court of Appeals, Amarillo
$30,800
$30,800
Eighth Court of Appeals, El Paso
$23,100
$23,100
Ninth Court of Appeals, Beaumont
$30,800
$30,800
Tenth Court of Appeals, Waco
$23,100
$23,100
Eleventh Court of Appeals, Eastland
$23,100
$23,100
Twelfth Court of Appeals, Tyler
$23,100
$23,100
Thirteenth Court of Appeals, Corpus
Christi-Edinburg
$46,200
$46,200
Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston
$69,300
$69,300
Office of the State Prosecuting Attorney
$7,000
$7,000
$774,200
$774,200
Judiciary Section, Comptroller's Department:
Strategy A.1.1, District Judge Salaries
$3,220,000
$3,220,000
Strategy A.1.2 Visiting Judges - Regions
$264,443
$264,443
Strategy A.1.3 Visiting Judges - Appellate
$18,223
$18,223
Strategy A.1.7 Multidistrict Litigation Salary
and Benefits
$7,000
$7,000
Strategy B.1.1 and B.1.3, District Attorneys, Criminal District Attorneys and County
Attorneys
$28,000
$28,000
Strategy B.1.2, Professional Prosecutors
$1,078,000
$1,078,000
Strategy C.1.3, Statutory County Judge 573
Supplement
$1,075,200
$1,075,200
Strategy D.1.2, County Attorney Supplement
$305,590
$305,590
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Longevity Pay
$19,530
$19,530
$6,015,986
$6,015,986
Subtotal, Salaries and Salary Supplements
$6,790,186
$6,790,186
Employees Retirement System
Contribution to the Judicial Retirement
System, Plan 1
$1,264,239
$1,264,239
Contribution to the Judicial Retirement
System, Plan 2
$522,209
$522,209
ERS Elected Class Members
$1,234,288
$1,234,288
$3,020,736
$3,020,736
Total, Salaries, Supplements and Benefits
$9,810,922
$9,810,922
Biennial Cost
$19,621,844

c. The Additional funding shall increase salaries and salary supplements for the identified positions to the following amounts:

For the Year Ending
August 31, 2015
August 31, 2016
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Presiding Judge of the Court of Criminal
Appeals
$170,500
$178,900
Justices of the Supreme Court
Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals
$168,000
$176,400
Chief Justices of the Courts of Appeals
$156,500
$164,200
Justices of the Courts of Appeals
$154,000
$161,700
District Judges
$140,000
$147,000
Statutory County Judge Salary
Supplement
$84,000
$88,200
District Attorneys in the Professional
Prosecutors Act
$140,000
$147,000
District Attorneys, Government Code, Sec. 41.013
County Attorneys, Government Code,
Sec. 44.220 and 45.175
$112,000
$117,600
County Attorneys
$23,333
$24,500
to $70,000
to $73,500