House Bill 1551e1

                                          HB 1551, First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Board of Juvenile

  3         Welfare, Pinellas County; amending chapter

  4         23483, Laws of Florida, 1945, as amended;

  5         providing that the state attorney and the

  6         public defender for the county shall be members

  7         of the board; reducing the number of board

  8         members who are juvenile-division circuit

  9         judges and increasing the number of board

10         members who are appointed by the Governor;

11         requiring appointees of the Governor to be

12         confirmed by the Senate; providing terms of

13         office; providing an effective date.

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15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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17         Section 1.  Section 1 of chapter 23483, Laws of

18  Florida, 1945, as amended, is amended to read:

19         Section 1.  Juvenile Welfare Board created; terms of

20  members.

21         There is hereby created for Pinellas County, Florida, a

22  Board of Juvenile Welfare, which shall consist of eleven (11)

23  nine (9) members.  One (1) member Three (3) of said members

24  shall be the county superintendent of public instruction, and

25  the second member shall be a judge in and both judges of the

26  juvenile division of the circuit court, who each shall hold

27  office on the said board during the term of office in the

28  official capacity stated.  The third and fourth members shall

29  be the state attorney and the public defender for the county,

30  and the fifth member shall be an appointed member of the Board

31  of County Commissioners of Pinellas County, Florida, who each


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                                          HB 1551, First Engrossed



  1  shall hold office on the said board for a two year term during

  2  the term of office in the official capacity stated.  The other

  3  six (6) five (5) members shall be appointed by the Governor of

  4  the State of Florida and confirmed by the Senate.  All

  5  appointments of members of the said board required to be made

  6  by the Governor shall be for the term of four (4) years each.

  7  If any of the members of the said board required to be

  8  appointed by the Governor under the provisions of this section

  9  act shall resign, die, or be removed from office, the vacancy

10  thereby created shall, as soon as practicable, be filled by

11  appointment by the Governor, and such appointment to fill a

12  vacancy shall be for the unexpired term of the person who

13  resigns, dies, or is removed from office.

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

15  law.

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