BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2443 |
By: Parker |
Corrections |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
The Texas Juvenile Justice Board is currently composed of 13 members. Some other criminal justice-related boards in this state have smaller memberships, including the Board of Pardons and Paroles and the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. C.S.H.B. 2443 seeks to change the composition of the Texas Juvenile Justice Board so that the board can more efficiently and effectively produce positive outcomes for youths, their families, and their communities.
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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.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2443 amends the Human Resources Code to change the composition of the Texas Juvenile Justice Board by reducing the number of board members who are members of a county commissioners court from three to one, reducing the number of board members who are chief juvenile probation officers of juvenile probation departments from three to one, and removing requirements that each board member who is a chief juvenile probation officer serve a county with a different juvenile population range. The bill provides that the terms of three board members, rather than four or five board members, expire on February 1 of each odd-numbered year. The bill prohibits any board member from residing in the same political subdivision as another board member.
C.S.H.B. 2443 establishes that the bill's provisions regarding the composition of board members do not affect the entitlement of a member serving on the board immediately before the bill's effective date to continue to serve the remainder of the member's term. The bill, on expiration of a term of a board member who is a member of a county commissioners court or a chief juvenile probation officer appointed under the law as it existed immediately before the bill's effective date, abolishes the member's position until the number of each such members is one. The bill requires the governor, as the terms of board members expire and for each position that is not abolished, to appoint or reappoint a member who has the required experience until the composition of the board meets the requirements under the bill's provisions. The bill authorizes an initial appointment to replace a director whose term expires but whose position is not abolished to be for two or four years to achieve the staggering of terms required under the bill's provisions.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2443 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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