BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 3045
79R10730 KLA-D By: Kolkhorst (Ogden)
AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
District judges in Grimes, Madison, Leon, and Walker counties are required to do a great deal of traveling in order to attend juvenile board meetings, which are composed of the local county judge and the district judges for each particular county. Although the board members are often required to travel great distances to carry out this task, they are only supplemented an additional compensation amount not to exceed $300 for the entire year. This amount has proven to be inadequate in recent years, given the responsibility, travel, and time involved.
H.B. 3045 raises the compensation that juvenile board members are paid to no less than $1,200 annually for the juvenile board members in Grimes, Madison, Leon, and Walker counties. Additionally, H.B. 3045 clarifies that the juvenile board for Leon County is composed of the county judge and the district judges in Leon County.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 152.0991(b), Human Resources Code, to require the commissioners court to pay the juvenile board members additional annual compensation set by the commissioners court at not less than $1,200 annually, rather than not less than $100 nor more than $300, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county.
SECTION 2. Amends Sections 152.1511(a) and (b), Human Resources Code, as follows:
(a) Provides that the juvenile board of Leon County is composed of the county judge and the district judges in Leon County, rather than the judges of the 12th and 278th Judicial Districts.
(b) Makes a conforming change.
SECTION 3. Amends Section 152.1631(b), Human Resources Code, to make a conforming change.
SECTION 4. Amends Section 152.2421(b), Human Resources Code, to require the commissioners court to pay the juvenile board members additional annual compensation of not less than $1,200, rather than an annual salary of $600, payable in equal monthly installments from the general fund of the county.
SECTION 5. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2005.