By: Turner S.B. No. 541
73R2299 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the juvenile board of Washington County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 152.2451, Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 152.2451. WASHINGTON COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board
1-7 of Washington County is composed of the county judge, <and> the
1-8 district judges in Washington County, and the judge of each county
1-9 court at law.
1-10 (b) The board shall select one member to act as <juvenile
1-11 court judge is the> chairman <of the board and its chief
1-12 administrative officer>.
1-13 (c) The commissioners court may reasonably compensate each
1-14 member of the juvenile board for the member's additional duties
1-15 <pay the board chairman additional annual compensation set by the
1-16 commissioners court at not more than $600 for the added duties
1-17 imposed on the chairman. The compensation shall be paid in equal
1-18 monthly installments from the general fund of the county>.
1-19 (d) The juvenile board shall pay from the juvenile board
1-20 fund to the extent of the state aid received in the fund the
1-21 salaries of juvenile probation department personnel and other
1-22 expenses required to provide adequate services to children.
1-23 (e) The county shall pay salaries and expenses other than
1-24 those paid under Subsection (d) that are essential to provide
2-1 adequate services to children in an amount set by the juvenile
2-2 board with the advice and consent of the commissioners court.
2-3 (f) The juvenile board may accept state aid and grants or
2-4 gifts from other political subdivisions of the state or
2-5 associations for the sole purpose of financing adequate and
2-6 effective probation programs. A municipality may grant money to
2-7 the county government or to the juvenile board to support and
2-8 maintain juvenile programs if the municipality's governing body
2-9 approves the expenditure. Funds received under this subsection
2-10 shall be administered and kept separately from other county funds.
2-11 (g) The chief juvenile probation officer may appoint
2-12 necessary personnel with the approval of the juvenile board.
2-13 Juvenile probation officers serve at the pleasure of the juvenile
2-14 board.
2-15 (h) The juvenile board shall provide the juvenile probation
2-16 officers with transportation or an automobile allowance for use of
2-17 a personal automobile on official business.
2-18 (i) The juvenile board may agree to operate together with
2-19 one or more counties that are adjacent to or in close proximity to
2-20 Washington County. The juvenile boards operating together may
2-21 appoint one fiscal officer to receive and disburse funds for the
2-22 boards.
2-23 (j) The juvenile board may operate foster homes for the
2-24 temporary care of children served by the board.
2-25 (k) Sections 152.0002, <152.0003,> 152.0004, <152.0005,
2-26 152.0006, 152.0007,> and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile
2-27 board of Washington County.
3-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-7 passage, and it is so enacted.