By:  West                                              S.B. No. 568
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to adding prosecutors of juvenile crime to county juvenile
    1-2  boards.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 152.0031, 152.0032, and 152.0051, Human
    1-5  Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 152.0031.  APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER.  Except as
    1-7  provided by Section 152.0032, this <This> subchapter does not apply
    1-8  to a county that is served by a juvenile board created under
    1-9  Subchapter C or D.
   1-10        Sec. 152.0032.  COMPOSITION OF JUVENILE BOARD.  (a)  The
   1-11  juvenile board is composed of the county judge, the district judges
   1-12  in the county, and the judges of any statutory courts designated as
   1-13  a juvenile court in the county.
   1-14        (b)  The district attorney, criminal district attorney,
   1-15  county attorney with felony responsibility, or county attorney, who
   1-16  has the responsibility of prosecuting juvenile offenders, is a
   1-17  member of the juvenile board, in addition to the officers listed in
   1-18  Subsection (a).  This subsection applies to each juvenile board
   1-19  created under this chapter.  If this subsection conflicts with a
   1-20  specific provision for a particular juvenile board, this subsection
   1-21  controls.
   1-22        Sec. 152.0051.  COMPOSITION OF JUVENILE BOARD.  The juvenile
   1-23  board of a county that has a family district court is composed of:
    2-1              (1)  the county judge;
    2-2              (2)  the judge of each family district court;
    2-3              (3)  the judge of each other district court in the
    2-4  county; <and>
    2-5              (4)  the judge of each other court in the county that
    2-6  has jurisdiction over juvenile matters; and
    2-7              (5)  the district attorney, criminal district attorney,
    2-8  county attorney with felony responsibility, or county attorney, who
    2-9  has the responsibility of prosecuting juvenile offenders.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  If any section, sentence, clause, or part of this
   2-11  Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall
   2-12  not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and it is hereby
   2-13  declared to be the intention of this legislature to have passed
   2-14  each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of the fact
   2-15  that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be declared
   2-16  invalid.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.