BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

                                                                                                                                    C.S.H.B. 2607

                                                                                                                                         By: Hughes

                                                                                                         Juvenile Justice & Family Issues

                                                                                                        Committee Report (Substituted)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

House Bill 2607 would increase the salary paid to the board members for the Wood County Juvenile Board from $1,200 per year to $4,800 per year.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. 

 

ANALYSIS

 

SECTION 1.  Amends Sections 152.2561(e) through (j) of the Human Resources Code by providing that the commissioner's court shall pay each juvenile board member an annual salary of not less than $4,800, payable in equal monthly installments from any funds available to the county or to the juvenile board. Additionally, the commissioner's court shall reimburse a juvenile board member for any actual and necessary expenses incurred while performing the member's duties.

 

The juvenile board shall also appoint necessary juvenile probation department personnel, and may discharge the employees of the juvenile probation department.

 

The juvenile board shall provide each juvenile probation officer or juvenile probation department employee with an automobile or an automobile allowance for use of a personal automobile on official business and pay the salaries, allowances, and other necessary expenses from the juvenile board fund to the extent of the state aid received in the fund. The commissioners court shall pay the remaining salaries, allowances, and other necessary expenses from the general fund or other available funds of the county.

 

The juvenile board shall set the annual rate of increase in the salaries of juvenile probation department personnel. If any portion of an employee's salary is to be paid from the general fund, the commissioners court shall approve the salary as presented to the commissioners court by the chairman of the juvenile board.  For purposes of this subsection, "salary" means only the fixed compensation paid to an employee and does not include health insurance, allowances, or any other benefit.

 

SECTION 2.  Upon passage, or, if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

September 1, 2007.

 

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

 

C.S.H.B.2607 modifies the original H.B.2607 by removing the provision to repeal Sections 152.2561(c), (k), and (l), of the Human Resources Code.