By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 1082
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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;
1-15                 (6)  the presiding municipal judge from the City of
1-16     Houston; and
1-17                 (7)  a justice of the peace in Harris County, selected
1-18     by majority vote of all of the justices of the peace in the county.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.