1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Henderson County Juvenile Board.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 152.1131, Human Resources Code, is
 1-5     amended to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 152.1131.  HENDERSON COUNTY.  (a)  The juvenile board of
 1-7     Henderson County is composed of:
 1-8                 (1)  the county judge;
 1-9                 (2)  the judges of the 3rd, [and] 173rd, and 392nd
1-10     judicial districts;
1-11                 (3)  the judge of the county court at law; and
1-12                 (4)  the county attorney.
1-13           (b)  The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as
1-14     chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year.  [The
1-15     judge of the 173rd Judicial District is the chairman of the board
1-16     and its chief administrative officer.][]
1-17           (c)  The commissioners court shall pay the 173rd and 392nd
1-18     district judges and the county court at law [juvenile court] judge
1-19     an amount set by the commissioners court at not less than $750 a
1-20     month and shall pay the 3rd district judge an amount set by the
1-21     commissioners court at not less than one-third of the amount paid
1-22     to the 173rd or 392nd district judge or the county court at law
1-23     [for the added duties imposed on the] judge.  The commissioners
1-24     court shall pay the other juvenile board members an amount set by
 2-1     the commissioners court at not less than $250 a month [for the
 2-2     added duties imposed on the members].  The compensation is in
 2-3     addition to other compensation provided or allowed by law [for a
 2-4     county attorney].
 2-5           (d)  The county attorney shall file, prosecute, and try on
 2-6     behalf of the state all juvenile cases in the juvenile court.  A
 2-7     [The] district attorney with jurisdiction in Henderson County [for
 2-8     the 173rd Judicial District] shall act for the county attorney at
 2-9     the request of the juvenile court judge if the county attorney is
2-10     ill or unable to perform his duties.
2-11           (e)  [The 173rd District Court is designated the juvenile
2-12     court of Henderson County.]
2-13           [(f)]  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,
2-14     152.0007, and 152.0008(a) do not apply to the juvenile board of
2-15     Henderson County.
2-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
         _______________________________     _______________________________
             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1532 was passed by the House on April
         8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1532 was passed by the Senate on May
         18, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor