1-1 By: Turner S.B. No. 541
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 1, 1993; March 2, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 19, 1993,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0;
1-5 April 19, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the juvenile board of Washington County.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 152.2451, Human Resources Code, is
1-26 amended to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 152.2451. WASHINGTON COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board
1-28 of Washington County is composed of the county judge, <and> the
1-29 district judges in Washington County, and the judge of each county
1-30 court at law.
1-31 (b) The board shall select one member to act as <juvenile
1-32 court judge is the> chairman <of the board and its chief
1-33 administrative officer>.
1-34 (c) The commissioners court may reasonably compensate each
1-35 member of the juvenile board for the member's additional duties
1-36 <pay the board chairman additional annual compensation set by the
1-37 commissioners court at not more than $600 for the added duties
1-38 imposed on the chairman. The compensation shall be paid in equal
1-39 monthly installments from the general fund of the county>.
1-40 (d) The juvenile board shall pay from the juvenile board
1-41 fund to the extent of the state aid received in the fund the
1-42 salaries of juvenile probation department personnel and other
1-43 expenses required to provide adequate services to children.
1-44 (e) The county shall pay salaries and expenses other than
1-45 those paid under Subsection (d) that are essential to provide
1-46 adequate services to children in an amount set by the juvenile
1-47 board with the advice and consent of the commissioners court.
1-48 (f) The juvenile board may accept state aid and grants or
1-49 gifts from other political subdivisions of the state or
1-50 associations for the sole purpose of financing adequate and
1-51 effective probation programs. A municipality may grant money to
1-52 the county government or to the juvenile board to support and
1-53 maintain juvenile programs if the municipality's governing body
1-54 approves the expenditure. Funds received under this subsection
1-55 shall be administered and kept separately from other county funds.
1-56 (g) The chief juvenile probation officer may appoint
1-57 necessary personnel with the approval of the juvenile board.
1-58 Juvenile probation officers serve at the pleasure of the juvenile
1-59 board.
1-60 (h) The juvenile board shall provide the juvenile probation
1-61 officers with transportation or an automobile allowance for use of
1-62 a personal automobile on official business.
1-63 (i) The juvenile board may agree to operate together with
1-64 one or more counties that are adjacent to or in close proximity to
1-65 Washington County. The juvenile boards operating together may
1-66 appoint one fiscal officer to receive and disburse funds for the
1-67 boards.
1-68 (j) The juvenile board may operate foster homes for the
2-1 temporary care of children served by the board.
2-2 (k) Sections 152.0002, <152.0003,> 152.0004, <152.0005,
2-3 152.0006, 152.0007,> and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile
2-4 board of Washington County.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-12 * * * * *
2-13 Austin,
2-14 Texas
2-15 April 19, 1993
2-16 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-17 President of the Senate
2-18 Sir:
2-19 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred S.B. No. 541,
2-20 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-21 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-22 pass and be printed.
2-23 Montford,
2-24 Chairman
2-25 * * * * *
2-26 WITNESSES
2-27 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 541.