1-1 By: Pickett (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh) H.B. No. 2724
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the El Paso County Juvenile Board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 152.0771(a), Human Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The juvenile board of El Paso County is composed of:
1-13 (1) the county judge;
1-14 (2) each family district court judge;
1-15 (3) each juvenile court judge; [and]
1-16 (4) up to five judges on the "El Paso Council of
1-17 Judges" to be elected by [a] majority vote of that [said] council;
1-18 (5) a municipal judge from El Paso County selected by
1-19 the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County; and
1-20 (6) a justice of the peace in El Paso County selected
1-21 by the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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