1-1  By:  Counts (Senate Sponsor - Sims)                   H.B. No. 1486
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
    1-3  April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; April 27, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 27, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the juvenile board of Mitchell County.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 152.1741, Human Resources Code, is
   1-12  amended by amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding
   1-13  Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  Mitchell County is included in the Fisher, Mitchell, and
   1-15  Nolan counties juvenile board.  The juvenile board is composed of:
   1-16              (1)  a <the> county judge from <judges and the district
   1-17  judges in> Fisher, Mitchell, or <and> Nolan County elected by a
   1-18  majority vote of the county judges from those counties <Counties>;
   1-19              (2)  the 32nd Judicial District judge or the judge of
   1-20  the county court at law in Nolan County who is selected by
   1-21  agreement between those two judges;
   1-22              (3)  one person <two persons> appointed by the Nolan
   1-23  County Commissioners Court;
   1-24              (4)  subject to Subsection (f), the city manager of
   1-25  Sweetwater or another person <two persons> appointed by the
   1-26  Sweetwater City Commission;
   1-27              (5)  subject to Subsection (g), the superintendent of
   1-28  the Sweetwater Independent School District or another person <two
   1-29  persons> appointed by the board of trustees of the Sweetwater
   1-30  Independent School District;
   1-31              (6)  one person <three members> appointed by the
   1-32  Mitchell County Commissioners Court; <and>
   1-33              (7)  one person <two members> appointed by the Fisher
   1-34  County Commissioners Court;
   1-35              (8)  the county attorney of Fisher, Mitchell, or Nolan
   1-36  County selected by majority vote of the county judges of those
   1-37  counties; and
   1-38              (9)  one person selected by majority vote of the county
   1-39  judges of Fisher, Mitchell, and Nolan counties, subject to
   1-40  confirmation by a vote of the commissioners courts of each of those
   1-41  counties.
   1-42        (b)  The chairman of the board is the county judge appointed
   1-43  under Subsection (a)(1) <by majority vote shall annually elect one
   1-44  of its members as chairman>.  The chairman presides at meetings
   1-45  scheduled by the board.
   1-46        (c)  The appointed members serve without compensation.  Each
   1-47  member serves a two-year term.
   1-48        (f)  The board member appointed by the Sweetwater City
   1-49  Commission under Subsection (a)(4) may be appointed only if the
   1-50  City of Sweetwater agrees to provide funds for the salaries of the
   1-51  personnel assigned to Nolan County and other expenses the board
   1-52  chairman certifies as necessary to provide adequate juvenile
   1-53  services to Nolan County as provided by Section 152.1831(d).
   1-54        (g)  The board member appointed by the Sweetwater Independent
   1-55  School District under Subsection (a)(5) may be appointed only if
   1-56  that school district agrees to provide funds for the salaries of
   1-57  the personnel assigned to Nolan County and other expenses the board
   1-58  chairman certifies as necessary to provide adequate juvenile
   1-59  services to Nolan County as provided by Section 152.1831(d).
   1-60        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.  The
   1-61  terms of the members of the Juvenile Board of Mitchell County who
   1-62  are serving immediately before the effective date of this Act
   1-63  expire on that date.  As soon as possible after the effective date
   1-64  of this Act, members of the Juvenile Board of Mitchell County shall
   1-65  be appointed in accordance with Section 152.1741, Human Resources
   1-66  Code, as amended by this Act.
   1-67        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-68  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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