House Bill 706 amends the Family Code to ratify the Interstate Compact for Juveniles. The compact allows for the management, monitoring, and supervision of certain juvenile offenders and probationers. Article 1 of the bill takes effect September 1, 2005. The remainder of the bill takes effect on the day on which the Interstate Compact for Juveniles takes effect, which according to the terms of the compact is the later of July 1, 2004, or the day on which the compact is enacted into law by the 35th state, as defined by the compact.