By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 1434          (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2017; March 20, 2017, read   first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental   Relations; April 11, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable   Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0,   1 present not voting; April 11, 2017, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1434 By:  Lucio     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to compensation of county auditors and assistant auditors   in certain counties.          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)  This subsection applies only to a county auditor or   assistant auditor appointed to serve a county located on an   international border that has a population of less than 300,000 and   contains one or more municipalities with a population of 200,000 or   more.  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.     * * * * *