1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the Lamar County Juvenile Board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 152.1451, Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 152.1451. LAMAR COUNTY. (a) The Lamar County Juvenile
1-7 Board is composed of:
1-8 (1) the county judge;
1-9 (2) the statutory county court at law judge;
1-10 (3) [and] the district judges in Lamar County; and
1-11 (4) one member of the commissioners court selected by
1-12 and from among the members of the commissioners court.
1-13 (b) The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as
1-14 chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year. The
1-15 board shall hold regular meetings each year on dates set by the
1-16 board and special meetings at the call of the chairman [court judge
1-17 is the chairman of the board and its chief administrative officer].
1-18 (c) Service on a juvenile board by a judge is an additional
1-19 duty of office. The commissioners court may pay the board chairman
1-20 and other board members additional annual compensation [of $2,400]
1-21 for the additional [added] duties imposed on the chairman and the
1-22 other board members. [The commissioners court may pay the other
1-23 board members additional annual compensation of not more than
1-24 $2,400.] The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly
2-1 installments from the general fund or any other available fund of
2-2 the county.
2-3 (d) The juvenile board shall recommend to the commissioners
2-4 court proposed salaries for juvenile probation officers and other
2-5 juvenile probation employees. The commissioners court shall set
2-6 the salaries of juvenile probation officers and other juvenile
2-7 probation employees after considering the recommendation of the
2-8 juvenile board and any other relevant factors, including the source
2-9 of funds, the duties and workload of the employees, and the effect
2-10 on other county employees. The commissioners court shall comply
2-11 with all applicable laws when setting the salaries of juvenile
2-12 probation officers and other juvenile probation employees.
2-13 (e) Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,
2-14 152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Lamar
2-15 County.
2-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1891 was passed by the House on April
25, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1891 on May 29, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1891 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor