1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1298

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 10, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 10, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the selection of the chairman of the juvenile board in

 1-9     Fort Bend County.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 152.0851, Human Resources Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Subsection (d)  to read as follows:

1-13           (d)  The board by majority vote shall annually elect one of

1-14     its members as chairman.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.

1-22                                  * * * * *