By: Simpson, Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 3161
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Upshur County Juvenile Board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 152.2361(a) and (b), Human Resources
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The Upshur County Juvenile Board is composed of the
county judge and[,] the district judge [judges] in Upshur County[,
and the judges of any statutory court in the county designated as a
juvenile court].
(b) The county judge of Upshur County is the chairman of the
board and its chief administrative officer [juvenile board shall
elect one of its members as chairman at its first regular meeting of
each calendar year].
SECTION 2. Sections 152.2361(c), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i),
(j), (k), and (m), Human Resources Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. 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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