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.