1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1389
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0;
1-6 April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1389 By: Ellis
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the composition of the El Paso County Juvenile Board.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 152.0771, Human Resources
1-13 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) The juvenile board of El Paso County is composed of:
1-15 (1) the county judge;
1-16 (2) each family district court judge;
1-17 (3) each juvenile court judge; [and]
1-18 (4) up to five judges on the "El Paso Council of
1-19 Judges" to be elected by [a] majority vote of that [said] council;
1-20 (5) a municipal judge from El Paso County selected by
1-21 the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County; and
1-22 (6) a justice of the peace in El Paso County selected
1-23 by the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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