1-1 By: Salinas (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 3821 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 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the creation of a juvenile board in Duval County. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 152, Human Resources Code, 1-12 is amended by adding Section 152.0721 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 152.0721. DUVAL COUNTY. (a) The Duval County Juvenile 1-14 Board is composed of the county judge, the district judge in Duval 1-15 County, and a citizen of Duval County appointed by the county judge 1-16 and the district judge in Duval County. The citizen member of the 1-17 board serves the same term of office as the district judge in Duval 1-18 County. 1-19 (b) The district judge is the chairman of the board and its 1-20 chief administrative officer. 1-21 (c) The commissioners court may pay the juvenile board 1-22 members an annual salary set by the commissioners court at not less 1-23 than $1,200 or more than $3,600 for the added duties imposed on the 1-24 members. The salary shall be paid in equal monthly installments 1-25 from the general fund of the county. 1-26 (d) The juvenile board shall appoint not more than five 1-27 persons to serve on an advisory council. 1-28 (e) Sections 152.0002, 152.0004, 152.0005, 152.0006, 1-29 152.0007, and 152.0008 do not apply to the juvenile board of Duval 1-30 County. 1-31 SECTION 2. (a) The Duval County Juvenile Board is created 1-32 and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-33 (b) The county judge in Duval County and the district judge 1-34 in Duval County shall appoint the citizen member of the Duval 1-35 County Juvenile Board as required by Section 152.0721(a), Human 1-36 Resources Code, as added by this Act, not later than October 1, 1-37 1999. 1-38 (c) The Duval County Juvenile Board shall appoint an 1-39 advisory council as required by Section 152.0721(d), Human 1-40 Resources Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, 1-41 2000. 1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-47 * * * * *