By Solis                                              H.B. No. 2140
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the transfer of certain juvenile cases in Cameron
    1-3  County.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 24.205, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-7        (e)  Notwithstanding Sections 51.04 and 54.021(a), Family
    1-8  Code, a district court of Cameron County designated by the juvenile
    1-9  board of that county as the juvenile court or alternate juvenile
   1-10  court shall waive its exclusive original jurisdiction and transfer
   1-11  a child to an appropriate justice court in that county for
   1-12  disposition in the manner provided by Section 54.021(b), Family
   1-13  Code, if the child is alleged to have engaged in conduct described
   1-14  by Section 51.03(b)(2), Family Code.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 24.376, Government Code, is amended by
   1-16  adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-17        (c)  Section 24.205, relating to the 103rd District Court,
   1-18  contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 197th
   1-19  District Court.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  Section 24.503, Government Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 24.503.  357TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (CAMERON AND WILLACY
   1-23  COUNTIES).  (a)  The 357th Judicial District is composed of Cameron
    2-1  and Willacy counties.
    2-2        (b)  Section 24.205, relating to the 103rd District Court,
    2-3  contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 357th
    2-4  District Court.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  This  Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-6  applies only to cases filed on or after that date in which a child
    2-7  is alleged to have engaged in conduct described by Section
    2-8  51.03(b)(2), Family Code.  A case filed before that date is covered
    2-9  by the law in effect on the date the case was filed, and that law
   2-10  is continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-11        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.