1-1 By: Bosse (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1082
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the Harris County Juvenile Board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 152.1071(a), Human Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The juvenile board of Harris County is composed of:
1-13 (1) the county judge;
1-14 (2) the juvenile court judges;
1-15 (3) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-16 family law matters, selected by those judges;
1-17 (4) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-18 criminal law cases, selected by those judges; [and]
1-19 (5) one judge of a district court that primarily hears
1-20 civil cases, selected by those judges; and
1-21 (6) a justice of the peace in Harris County, selected
1-22 by majority vote of all of the justices of the peace in the county.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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