1-1     By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Fraser)                 H.B. No. 3550

 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 13, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the creation of the juvenile board of Concho County.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 152, Human Resources Code,

1-12     is amended by adding Section 152.0541 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 152.0541.  CONCHO COUNTY.  (a)  The juvenile board of

1-14     Concho County is composed of the county judge and the district

1-15     judges in Concho County.

1-16           (b)  The juvenile court judge is the chairman of the board

1-17     and its chief administrative officer.

1-18           (c)  The commissioners court may pay the board chairman

1-19     additional annual compensation of not more than $600 for the added

1-20     duties imposed on the chairman. The commissioners court may pay the

1-21     other board members additional annual compensation of not more than

1-22     $300.  The compensation shall be paid in equal monthly installments

1-23     from the general fund or any other available fund.

1-24           (d)  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0006, 152.0007, and

1-25     152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Concho County.

1-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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