1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the Smith County Juvenile Board to

 1-3     accept gifts and grants.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 152.2181, Human Resources Code, is

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

 1-7           (e)  The board may accept gifts and grants from any private

 1-8     or public source to use in maintaining and improving the county's

 1-9     juvenile probation services.

1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3591 was passed by the House on May

         10, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3591 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor