By Junell                                             H.B. No. 3550

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the creation of the juvenile board of Concho County.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 152, Human Resources Code,

 1-5     is amended by adding Section 152.0541 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 152.0541.  CONCHO COUNTY.  (a)  The juvenile board of

 1-7     Concho County is composed of the county judge and the district

 1-8     judges in Concho County.

 1-9           (b)  The juvenile court judge is the chairman of the board

1-10     and its chief administrative officer.

1-11           (c)  The commissioners court may pay the board chairman

1-12     additional annual compensation of not more than $600 for the added

1-13     duties imposed on the chairman. The commissioners court may pay the

1-14     other board members additional annual compensation of not more than

1-15     $300.  The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly installments

1-16     from the general fund or any other available fund.

1-17           (d)  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0006, 152.0007, and

1-18     152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Concho County.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.