AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the Hays County juvenile probation department.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 152.1111, Human

 1-4     Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-5           (a)  The juvenile board of Hays County is composed of the

 1-6     county judge, the district judge of the 22nd judicial district

 1-7     [judges in Hays County], the judges [judge] of the county court at

 1-8     law, the county sheriff, and the criminal district [county]

 1-9     attorney.

1-10           (b)  The commissioners court may pay the juvenile board

1-11     members additional annual compensation in an amount determined by

1-12     the commissioners court [of not more than $300 for the added duties

1-13     imposed on the members].  The additional compensation shall be paid

1-14     in equal monthly installments from the general fund or any other

1-15     available fund of the county.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     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 hereby certify that S.B. No. 1938 passed the Senate on

         May 10, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1938 passed the House on

         May 21, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor