1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of a juvenile board in Duval County.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 152, Human Resources Code,
 1-5     is amended by adding Section 152.0721 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 152.0721.  DUVAL COUNTY.  (a)  The Duval County Juvenile
 1-7     Board is composed of the county judge, the district judge in Duval
 1-8     County, and a citizen of Duval County appointed by the county judge
 1-9     and the district judge in Duval County.  The citizen member of the
1-10     board serves the same term of office as the district judge in Duval
1-11     County.
1-12           (b)  The district judge is the chairman of the board and its
1-13     chief administrative officer.
1-14           (c)  The commissioners court may pay the juvenile board
1-15     members an annual salary set by the commissioners court at not less
1-16     than $1,200 or more than $3,600 for the added duties imposed on the
1-17     members.  The salary shall be paid in equal monthly installments
1-18     from the general fund of the county.
1-19           (d)  The juvenile board shall appoint not more than five
1-20     persons to serve on an advisory council.
1-21           (e)  Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006,
1-22     152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Duval
1-23     County.
1-24           SECTION 2.  (a)  The Duval County Juvenile Board is created
 2-1     and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-2           (b)  The county judge in Duval County and the district judge
 2-3     in Duval County shall appoint the citizen member of the Duval
 2-4     County Juvenile Board as required by Section 152.0721(a), Human
 2-5     Resources Code, as added by this Act, not later than October 1,
 2-6     1999.
 2-7           (c)  The Duval County Juvenile Board shall appoint an
 2-8     advisory council as required by Section 152.0721(d), Human
 2-9     Resources Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
2-10     2000.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     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. 3821 was passed by the House on May
         8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3821 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor