1-1     By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1895
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 29, 1999; April 30, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     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 Galveston County Juvenile Board.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 152.0901, Human Resources
1-11     Code, is 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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