By: Marquez (Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez) H.B. No. 1334

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2013; April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 9, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the composition of the El Paso County juvenile board.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 152.0771(a), Human Resources Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The juvenile board of El Paso County is composed of:

(1) the county judge or:

(A) a member of the commissioners court designated by the county judge; or

(B) an individual who is not a member of the commissioners court and who is designated by the county judge and approved by the commissioners court by majority vote;

(2) each family district court judge;

(3) each juvenile court judge;

(4) up to five judges on the "El Paso Council of Judges" to be elected by majority vote of that council;

(5) a municipal judge from El Paso County selected by the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County; and

(6) a justice of the peace in El Paso County selected by the chairman of the juvenile board of El Paso County.

SECTION 2. 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, 2013.

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