1-1 By: Gray (Senate Sponsor - Jackson) H.B. No. 3815
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Administration; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of the Galveston County Juvenile Board.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 152.0901(a), Human Resources Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (a) The Galveston County Juvenile Board is composed of:
1-13 (1) the county judge; [,]
1-14 (2) the district judges in Galveston County; [, and]
1-15 (3) the judge of each statutory county court;
1-16 (4) a municipal judge in Galveston County, selected by
1-17 majority vote of all the municipal judges in the county; and
1-18 (5) a justice of the peace in Galveston County,
1-19 selected by majority vote of all the justices of the peace in the
1-20 county.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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