1-1 By: Patterson (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 1891
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;
1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 1997, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-6 Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1891 By: Lucio
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the Lamar County Juvenile Board.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 152.1451, Human Resources Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 152.1451. LAMAR COUNTY. (a) The Lamar County Juvenile
1-15 Board is composed of:
1-16 (1) the county judge;
1-17 (2) the statutory county court at law judge;
1-18 (3) [and] the district judges in Lamar County; and
1-19 (4) one member of the commissioners court selected by
1-20 and from among the members of the commissioners court.
1-21 (b) The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as
1-22 chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year. The
1-23 board shall hold regular meetings each year on dates set by the
1-24 board and special meetings at the call of the chairman [court judge
1-25 is the chairman of the board and its chief administrative officer].
1-26 (c) Service on a juvenile board by a judge is an additional
1-27 duty of office. The commissioners court may pay the board chairman
1-28 and other board members additional annual compensation [of $2,400]
1-29 for the additional [added] duties imposed on the chairman and the
1-30 other board members. [The commissioners court may pay the other
1-31 board members additional annual compensation of not more than
1-32 $2,400.] The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly
1-33 installments from the general fund or any other available fund of
1-34 the county.
1-35 (d) The juvenile board shall recommend to the commissioners
1-36 court proposed salaries for juvenile probation officers and other
1-37 juvenile probation employees. The commissioners court shall set
1-38 the salaries of juvenile probation officers and other juvenile
1-39 probation employees after considering the recommendation of the
1-40 juvenile board and any other relevant factors, including the source
1-41 of funds, the duties and workload of the employees, and the effect
1-42 on other county employees. The commissioners court shall comply
1-43 with all applicable laws when setting the salaries of juvenile
1-44 probation officers and other juvenile probation employees.
1-45 (e) Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,
1-46 152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Lamar
1-47 County.
1-48 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-49 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-50 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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