1-1 By: Alexander (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 1532
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 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the Henderson County Juvenile Board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 152.1131, Human Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 152.1131. HENDERSON COUNTY. (a) The juvenile board of
1-13 Henderson County is composed of:
1-14 (1) the county judge;
1-15 (2) the judges of the 3rd, [and] 173rd, and 392nd
1-16 judicial districts;
1-17 (3) the judge of the county court at law; and
1-18 (4) the county attorney.
1-19 (b) The juvenile board shall elect one of its members as
1-20 chairman at its first regular meeting of each fiscal year. [The
1-21 judge of the 173rd Judicial District is the chairman of the board
1-22 and its chief administrative officer.][juvenile court] judge
1-25 an amount set by the commissioners court at not less than $750 a
1-26 month and shall pay the 3rd district judge an amount set by the
1-27 commissioners court at not less than one-third of the amount paid
1-28 to the 173rd or 392nd district judge or the county court at law
1-29 [for the added duties imposed on the] judge. The commissioners
1-30 court shall pay the other juvenile board members an amount set by
1-31 the commissioners court at not less than $250 a month [for the
1-32 added duties imposed on the members]. The compensation is in
1-33 addition to other compensation provided or allowed by law [for a
1-34 county attorney].
1-35 (d) The county attorney shall file, prosecute, and try on
1-36 behalf of the state all juvenile cases in the juvenile court. A
1-37 [The] district attorney with jurisdiction in Henderson County [for
1-38 the 173rd Judicial District] shall act for the county attorney at
1-39 the request of the juvenile court judge if the county attorney is
1-40 ill or unable to perform his duties.
1-41 (e) [The 173rd District Court is designated the juvenile
1-42 court of Henderson County.]
1-43 [(f)] Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,
1-44 152.0007, and 152.0008(a) do not apply to the juvenile board of
1-45 Henderson County.
1-46 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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