By:  Chisum                                           H.B. No. 2845
       73R6131 CBH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the juvenile board of Castro, Hale, and Swisher
    1-3  counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 152.0411(a), (c), (d), (g), and (h),
    1-6  Human Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The juvenile board of Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher
    1-8  counties is composed of the county judges, the district judges in
    1-9  Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher counties, and the judge of any
   1-10  statutory court designated as a juvenile court in the counties.
   1-11        (c)  The commissioners courts of the counties shall pay the
   1-12  members of the juvenile board an annual salary set by the
   1-13  commissioners court at not less than $1,200, payable in equal
   1-14  monthly installments from the general fund of the counties.  The
   1-15  counties shall apportion and pay the salary according to the method
   1-16  determined by the counties <ratio used to pay the expenses of the
   1-17  64th and 242nd judicial districts>.
   1-18        (d)  The counties shall apportion and pay the juvenile board
   1-19  costs, other than the judge's salaries, according to the method
   1-20  determined by the counties <ratio used to pay the expenses of the
   1-21  64th and 242nd judicial districts, unless the counties agree to use
   1-22  a different method of allocating costs>.
   1-23        (g)  The juvenile board shall appoint an advisory council
   1-24  composed of five citizens from different parts of Castro<, Hale,>
    2-1  and Swisher counties.
    2-2        (h)  Sections 152.0004 and 152.0005(b) do not apply to the
    2-3  juvenile board in Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher counties.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  Section 152.1011, Human Resources Code, is
    2-5  amended to read as follows:
    2-6        Sec. 152.1011.  Hale County.  (a)  The juvenile board of
    2-7  <Castro,> Hale County<, and Swisher counties> is composed of the
    2-8  county judge <judges>, the district judges in <Castro,> Hale
    2-9  County<, and Swisher counties>, and the judge of any statutory
   2-10  court designated as a juvenile court in the county <counties>.
   2-11        (b)  The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as
   2-12  chairman.
   2-13        (c)  The commissioners court shall pay the members of the
   2-14  juvenile board an annual salary set by the commissioners court at
   2-15  not less than $1,200, payable in equal monthly installments from
   2-16  the general fund of the county.
   2-17        (d)  The commissioners court shall pay the salaries and
   2-18  expenses of juvenile probation personnel and other expenses the
   2-19  chairman certifies as essential to provide services to children
   2-20  from the general funds or any other available funds of the county.
   2-21        (e)  A member of the juvenile board is not liable in civil
   2-22  damages or for criminal prosecution for an action taken by the
   2-23  juvenile board.
   2-24        (f)  The juvenile board shall appoint an advisory council
   2-25  composed of five citizens from different parts of Hale County.
   2-26        (g)  Sections 152.0004 and 152.0005(b) do not apply to the
   2-27  juvenile board in Hale County  <Section 152.0411 applies to the
    3-1  juvenile board of Castro, Hale, and Swisher counties>.
    3-2        SECTION 3.  Section 152.2251, Human Resources Code, is
    3-3  amended to read as follows:
    3-4        Sec. 152.2251.  Swisher County.  (a)  The juvenile board of
    3-5  Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher counties is composed of the county
    3-6  judges, the district judges in Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher
    3-7  counties, and the judge of any statutory court designated as a
    3-8  juvenile court in the counties.
    3-9        (b)  Section 152.0411 applies to the juvenile board of
   3-10  Castro<, Hale,> and Swisher counties.
   3-11        SECTION 4.  On October 1, 1993, or an earlier date provided
   3-12  by agreement, Castro, Hale, and Swisher counties shall implement
   3-13  the changes made by this Act to Sections 152.0411, 152.1011, and
   3-14  152.2251, Human Resources Code.
   3-15        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-21  passage, and it is so enacted.