By: Holzheauser H.B. No. 2855 73R8800 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain minors who engage in criminal or delinquent 1-3 conduct. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. CERTAIN RECORDS RELATING TO URBAN CRIME. Files, 1-6 records, photographs, and fingerprints of a person younger than 15 1-7 years of age may be combined with those of persons older than 15 1-8 years of age if the person is referred to the juvenile court for a 1-9 felony listed in Section 53.045(a), Family Code, a criminal offense 1-10 resulting from participation in a criminal street gang defined by 1-11 Section 71.01, Penal Code, or the unlawful use, sale, or possession 1-12 of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, or marihuana, as 1-13 defined by Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code. 1-14 SECTION 2. PROSECUTION OF CRIMES BY CERTAIN PERSONS. 1-15 Notwithstanding Title 3, Family Code, or Section 8.07, Penal Code, 1-16 a person who is 15 years of age or older is not a child and conduct 1-17 by the person may be prosecuted as a crime. 1-18 SECTION 3. JURISDICTION AND TRANSFER OF CERTAIN PERSONS. 1-19 (a) A juvenile court shall waive its jurisdiction and transfer any 1-20 child 13 years of age or older to the appropriate district court or 1-21 criminal district court if the child violates a penal law of the 1-22 grade of felony and the child is unable to show good cause why the 1-23 child should not be transferred. 1-24 (b) Notwithstanding Title 3, Family Code, and Chapter 61, 2-1 Human Resources Code, a person eight years of age or older is under 2-2 the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts and may be committed to the 2-3 Texas Youth Commission. 2-4 SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 2-5 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.