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.