1-1     By:  Howard (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                  H.B. No. 1979

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 17, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the selection of the chairman of the juvenile board in

1-10     Fort Bend County.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 152.0851, Human Resources Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Subsection (d)  to read as follows:

1-14           (d)  The board by majority vote shall annually elect one of

1-15     its members as chairman.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.

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