H.B. No. 3195
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Coryell County juvenile board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 152.0561, Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 152.0561. CORYELL COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board of
1-7 Coryell County is composed of the county judge, the district judge
1-8 or judges whose district includes Coryell County, and the judges of
1-9 the county courts-at-law of Coryell County. <(a) The juvenile
1-10 board of Coryell County is composed of the county judge, the
1-11 district judges in Coryell County, and the judge of the county
1-12 court at law.>
1-13 (b) The board shall select one of its members to serve as
1-14 chairman and chief administrative officer. The chairman serves a
1-15 one- or two-year term as determined by the board <The juvenile
1-16 court judge is the chairman of the board and its chief
1-17 administrative officer>.
1-18 (c) The commissioners court shall <may> pay the juvenile
1-19 board members additional annual compensation set by the
1-20 commissioners court at not less than the amount paid to a board
1-21 member under this section on October 1, 1994 <more than $2,400 for
1-22 the added duties imposed on the members>. Compensation under this
1-23 section must be the same amount for each board member <The
1-24 commissioners court may not pay the judge of the county court at
2-1 law more additional compensation than the other board members
2-2 receive>. The additional compensation is paid in equal monthly
2-3 installments from the general fund of the county.
2-4 (d) The board may apply for, accept, hold in trust, spend,
2-5 and use a gift, grant, or donation of land, money, or other
2-6 personal property from a government, corporate, personal, or other
2-7 source to finance adequate and effective probation programs and
2-8 services.
2-9 (e) Sections 152.0002, <152.0003,> 152.0004, <152.0005,>
2-10 152.0006, 152.0007, and 152.0008(a) <152.0008> do not apply to the
2-11 juvenile board of Coryell County.
2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.