By Patterson                                    H.B. No. 1891

      75R5186 MLS-F                           

                                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 the constitutional county judge, the statutory

 1-8     county  court at law judge, and the district judges in Lamar

 1-9     County.

1-10           (b)  The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as

1-11     chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year.  The

1-12     board shall hold regular meetings each year on dates set by the

1-13     board and special meetings at the call of the chairman [court judge

1-14     is the chairman of the board and its chief administrative officer].

1-15           (c)  Service on a juvenile board by a judge is an additional

1-16     duty of office.  The commissioners court may pay the board chairman

1-17     and other board members additional annual compensation [of $2,400]

1-18     for the additional [added] duties imposed on the chairman and the

1-19     other board  members.  [The commissioners court may pay the other

1-20     board members additional annual compensation of not more than

1-21     $2,400.]  The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly

1-22     installments from the general fund or any other available fund of

1-23     the county.

1-24           (d)  The juvenile board shall recommend to the commissioners

 2-1     court proposed salaries for juvenile probation officers and other

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

 2-3     the salaries of juvenile probation officers and other juvenile

 2-4     probation employees after considering the recommendation of the

 2-5     juvenile board and any other relevant factors, including the source

 2-6     of funds, the duties and workload of the employees, and the effect

 2-7     on other county employees.

 2-8           (e)  The commissioners court shall set the annual rate of

 2-9     increase in salaries for juvenile probation employees and juvenile

2-10     judges at the rate of increase given to other Lamar County

2-11     employees or to state employees.  If the rates are different, the

2-12     commissioners court may choose one of the rates or choose a rate

2-13     that is between the two rates.  In choosing the rate, the

2-14     commissioners court may consider any relevant factor, including the

2-15     source of the funds, the duties and workload of the employees, and

2-16     the effect on other county employees.

2-17           (f)  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,

2-18     152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Lamar

2-19     County.

2-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.