By De La Garza H.B. No. 2888 74R6726 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the funding of county programs for juveniles who have 1-3 engaged in conduct indicating a need for supervision or delinquent 1-4 conduct. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. FUNDING OF COUNTY PROGRAMS. (a) A county that 1-7 operates a program for juveniles who have engaged in conduct 1-8 indicating a need for supervision or delinquent conduct is entitled 1-9 to receive funds from the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission: 1-10 (1) to be used only for expenses related to the 1-11 program; and 1-12 (2) in an amount equal to not more than 50 percent of 1-13 the money spent by the county on the program. 1-14 (b) The agency shall by rule provide for the application and 1-15 disbursement of the funds to the county. 1-16 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-17 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.