1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the selection of the chairman of the juvenile board in

 1-3     Fort Bend County.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 152.0851, Human Resources Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (d)  to read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  The board by majority vote shall annually elect one of

 1-8     its members as chairman.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1979 was passed by the House on April

         3, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1979 was passed by the Senate on

         April 24, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 29, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor