S.B. No. 541
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the juvenile board of Washington County.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 152.2451, Human Resources Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 152.2451. WASHINGTON COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board
1-6 of Washington County is composed of the county judge, <and> the
1-7 district judges in Washington County, and the judge of each county
1-8 court at law.
1-9 (b) The board shall select one member to act as <juvenile
1-10 court judge is the> chairman <of the board and its chief
1-11 administrative officer>.
1-12 (c) The commissioners court may reasonably compensate each
1-13 member of the juvenile board for the member's additional duties
1-14 <pay the board chairman additional annual compensation set by the
1-15 commissioners court at not more than $600 for the added duties
1-16 imposed on the chairman. The compensation shall be paid in equal
1-17 monthly installments from the general fund of the county>.
1-18 (d) The juvenile board shall pay from the juvenile board
1-19 fund to the extent of the state aid received in the fund the
1-20 salaries of juvenile probation department personnel and other
1-21 expenses required to provide adequate services to children.
1-22 (e) The county shall pay salaries and expenses other than
1-23 those paid under Subsection (d) that are essential to provide
1-24 adequate services to children in an amount set by the juvenile
2-1 board with the advice and consent of the commissioners court.
2-2 (f) The juvenile board may accept state aid and grants or
2-3 gifts from other political subdivisions of the state or
2-4 associations for the sole purpose of financing adequate and
2-5 effective probation programs. A municipality may grant money to
2-6 the county government or to the juvenile board to support and
2-7 maintain juvenile programs if the municipality's governing body
2-8 approves the expenditure. Funds received under this subsection
2-9 shall be administered and kept separately from other county funds.
2-10 (g) The chief juvenile probation officer may appoint
2-11 necessary personnel with the approval of the juvenile board.
2-12 Juvenile probation officers serve at the pleasure of the juvenile
2-13 board.
2-14 (h) The juvenile board shall provide the juvenile probation
2-15 officers with transportation or an automobile allowance for use of
2-16 a personal automobile on official business.
2-17 (i) The juvenile board may agree to operate together with
2-18 one or more counties that are adjacent to or in close proximity to
2-19 Washington County. The juvenile boards operating together may
2-20 appoint one fiscal officer to receive and disburse funds for the
2-21 boards.
2-22 (j) The juvenile board may operate foster homes for the
2-23 temporary care of children served by the board.
2-24 (k) Sections 152.0002, <152.0003,> 152.0004, <152.0005,
2-25 152.0006, 152.0007,> and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile
2-26 board of Washington County.
2-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-6 passage, and it is so enacted.