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.