75R10712 MLS-D                           

         By Patterson                                          H.B. No. 1891

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1891:

         By McReynolds                                     C.S.H.B. No. 1891

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 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;

1-11                 (4)  two members of the commissioners court selected by

1-12     and from among the members of the commissioners court; and

1-13                 (5)  one superintendent of a school district located in

1-14     whole or in part in Lamar County selected by the superintendents of

1-15     the school districts located in whole or in part in Lamar County.

1-16           (b)  The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as

1-17     chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year.  The

1-18     board shall hold regular meetings each year on dates set by the

1-19     board and special meetings at the call of the chairman [court judge

1-20     is the chairman of the board and its chief administrative officer].

1-21           (c)  Service on a juvenile board by a judge is an additional

1-22     duty of office.  The commissioners court may pay the board chairman

1-23     and other board members additional annual compensation [of $2,400]

1-24     for the additional [added] duties imposed on the chairman and the

 2-1     other board  members.  [The commissioners court may pay the other

 2-2     board members additional annual compensation of not more than

 2-3     $2,400.]  The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly

 2-4     installments from the general fund or any other available fund of

 2-5     the county.

 2-6           (d)  The juvenile board shall recommend to the commissioners

 2-7     court proposed salaries for juvenile probation officers and other

 2-8     juvenile probation employees.  The commissioners court shall set

 2-9     the salaries of juvenile probation officers and other juvenile

2-10     probation employees after considering the recommendation of the

2-11     juvenile board and any other relevant factors, including the source

2-12     of funds, the duties and workload of the employees, and the effect

2-13     on other county employees.  The commissioners court shall comply

2-14     with all applicable laws when setting the salaries of juvenile

2-15     probation officers and other juvenile probation employees.

2-16           (e)  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,

2-17     152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Lamar

2-18     County.

2-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.