1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of the Harris County Juvenile Board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 152.1071(a), Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) The juvenile board of Harris County is composed of:
1-7 (1) the county judge;
1-8 (2) the juvenile court judges;
1-9 (3) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-10 family law matters, selected by those judges;
1-11 (4) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-12 criminal law cases, selected by those judges; [and]
1-13 (5) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-14 civil cases, selected by those judges; and
1-15 (6) a justice of the peace in Harris County, selected
1-16 by majority vote of all of the justices of the peace in the county.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 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. 1082 was passed by the House on April
8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1082 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor