By: Harris  S.B. No. 1921
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2007; March 12, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 14, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0; March 14, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the powers, duties, and composition of the governing
  board of the Texas Youth Commission.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  REPEALER.  Subsection (a), Section 61.012, Human
  Resources Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 2.  AMENDMENT.  Section 61.012, Human Resources
  Code, is amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  The governing board of the Texas Youth Commission
  consists of seven members appointed by the governor with the
  consent of the senate.  Appointments to the board shall be made
  without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion, age,
  or national origin of the appointees.
         SECTION 3.  TRANSITION; TERMINATION OF PREVIOUSLY APPOINTED
  BOARD.  The terms of all members of the governing board of the Texas
  Youth Commission who were appointed under Subsection (a), Section
  61.012, Human Resources Code, as repealed by this Act, expire on the
  effective date of this Act.  The position to which the members were
  appointed to is abolished and there is no position for the member to
  hold over to.
         SECTION 4.  TRANSITION; RESTRICTIONS ON APPOINTMENT ON NEW
  BOARD.  In making appointments to the governing board of the Texas
  Youth Commission under Subsection (e), Section 61.012, Human
  Resources Code, as added by this Act, the governor may not appoint
  any person who was appointed as a member of the governing board of
  the Texas Youth Commission under Subsection (a), Section 61.012,
  Human Resources Code, as repealed by this Act.
         SECTION 5.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect
  immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
  elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas
  Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for
  immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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