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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