1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 3195
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Coryell County juvenile board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 152.0561, Human Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 152.0561. CORYELL COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board of
1-13 Coryell County is composed of the county judge, the district judge
1-14 or judges whose district includes Coryell County, and the judges of
1-15 the county courts-at-law of Coryell County. <(a) The juvenile
1-16 board of Coryell County is composed of the county judge, the
1-17 district judges in Coryell County, and the judge of the county
1-18 court at law.>
1-19 (b) The board shall select one of its members to serve as
1-20 chairman and chief administrative officer. The chairman serves a
1-21 one- or two-year term as determined by the board <The juvenile
1-22 court judge is the chairman of the board and its chief
1-23 administrative officer>.
1-24 (c) The commissioners court shall <may> pay the juvenile
1-25 board members additional annual compensation set by the
1-26 commissioners court at not less than the amount paid to a board
1-27 member under this section on October 1, 1994 <more than $2,400 for
1-28 the added duties imposed on the members>. Compensation under this
1-29 section must be the same amount for each board member <The
1-30 commissioners court may not pay the judge of the county court at
1-31 law more additional compensation than the other board members
1-32 receive>. The additional compensation is paid in equal monthly
1-33 installments from the general fund of the county.
1-34 (d) The board may apply for, accept, hold in trust, spend,
1-35 and use a gift, grant, or donation of land, money, or other
1-36 personal property from a government, corporate, personal, or other
1-37 source to finance adequate and effective probation programs and
1-38 services.
1-39 (e) Sections 152.0002, <152.0003,> 152.0004, <152.0005,>
1-40 152.0006, 152.0007, and 152.0008(a) <152.0008> do not apply to the
1-41 juvenile board of Coryell County.
1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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