By:  Hill                                             H.B. No. 2161
       73R1351 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the transfer of a case in which proceedings have been
    1-3  deferred on completion of a teen court program to another court
    1-4  within the same county.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 45.55(f), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        (f)  A court may transfer a case in which proceedings have
    1-9  been deferred under this section to a court in the same county or
   1-10  in a contiguous county if the court to which the case is
   1-11  transferred consents.  A case may not be transferred unless it is
   1-12  within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 54.032(f), Family Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (f)  A court may transfer a case in which proceedings have
   1-16  been deferred as provided by this section to a court in the same
   1-17  county or in a contiguous county if the court to which the case is
   1-18  transferred consents.  A case may not be transferred unless it is
   1-19  within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to
   1-21  conduct that occurs or an offense that is committed regardless of
   1-22  when the conduct occurred or the offense was committed.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-24        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.