By:  Combs                                            H.B. No. 2722
       73R6336 DAK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the admission of unadjudicated conduct before a
    1-3  juvenile court.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Section 54.043 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.043.  ADMISSION OF UNADJUDICATED CONDUCT.  (a)  A
    1-8  child may, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 of this
    1-9  code, admit that the child engaged in conduct in need of
   1-10  supervision or delinquent conduct if:
   1-11              (1)  the conduct has not been the subject of an
   1-12  adjudication hearing under Section 54.03 of this code; and
   1-13              (2)  the prosecuting attorney and the attorney
   1-14  representing the child consent to the admission.
   1-15        (b)  After making an admission of conduct under Subsection
   1-16  (a) of this section, the child may request the juvenile court to
   1-17  take the admission into account in determining the child's
   1-18  disposition for conduct adjudicated under Section 54.03 of this
   1-19  code.  If the juvenile court takes the admission into account in
   1-20  its disposition of the child, any further proceedings relating to
   1-21  the conduct are not authorized and the conduct may not be the
   1-22  subject of any adjudication.
   1-23        (c)  A juvenile court may take into account conduct the venue
   1-24  for which is in a county other than the county in which the court
    2-1  is located only with the consent of the prosecuting attorney of the
    2-2  juvenile court located in a county for which venue for the conduct
    2-3  is proper.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-5  applies to the admission of conduct under Section 54.043, Family
    2-6  Code, as added by this Act, without regard to whether the conduct
    2-7  occurred before, on, or after that date.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.