1-1 By: Carriker S.B. No. 588
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1993; March 3, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 15, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Armbrister x
1-9 Leedom x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Madla x
1-13 Moncrief x
1-14 Patterson x
1-15 Rosson x
1-16 Shapiro x
1-17 Wentworth x
1-18 Whitmire x
1-19 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Carriker
1-20 Amend S.B. 588 by striking all language on line of page of the
1-21 bill and substitute the following:
1-22 (c) On adoption of an order by the juvenile board and
1-23 approval of the juvenile board's order by record vote of the
1-24 commissioners court, it
1-25 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-26 AN ACT
1-27 relating to the designation of responsibility for the transporting
1-28 of juvenile offenders.
1-29 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-30 SECTION 1. Chapter 52, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-31 Section 52.026 to read as follows:
1-32 Sec. 52.026. RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRANSPORTING JUVENILE
1-33 OFFENDERS. (a) It shall be the duty of the law enforcement
1-34 officer who has taken a child into custody to transport the child
1-35 to the appropriate juvenile detention facility if the child is not
1-36 released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child.
1-37 (b) If the juvenile detention facility is located outside
1-38 the county in which the child is taken into custody, it shall be
1-39 the duty of the sheriff of that county to transport the child to
1-40 the appropriate juvenile detention facility if the child is not
1-41 released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child.
1-42 (c) At the request of the juvenile probation department, it
1-43 shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county in which the child
1-44 is taken into custody to transport the child to and from all
1-45 scheduled juvenile court proceedings and appearances and other
1-46 activities ordered by the juvenile court.
1-47 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 April 15, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-62 referred S.B. No. 588, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-63 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-64 recommendation that it do pass, as amended, and be printed.
1-65 Armbrister,
1-66 Chairman
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1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 FOR AGAINST ON
2-2 ___________________________________________________________________
2-3 Name: Jim Allison x
2-4 Representing: County Judges & Commissioners
2-5 City: Austin
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2-7 Name: James Scott Friedman x
2-8 Representing: Caldwell Cnty Juvenile Prob
2-9 City: Lockhart
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2-11 Name: Mark Raygosa x
2-12 Representing: La Salle County Juvenile Prob
2-13 City: Cotulla
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2-15 Name: Harry J. Marek x
2-16 Representing: Guadalupe County Juvenile Prob
2-17 City: Seguin
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2-19 Name: Linda Brooke x
2-20 Representing: Tx Juv. Probation Comm.
2-21 City: Austin
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2-23 Name: Debra M. Dillenberger x
2-24 Representing: 20th - 82nd Judicial Dist.
2-25 City: Marlin
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2-27 Name: Melissa Weiss x
2-28 Representing: Austin County Juvenile Prob
2-29 City: Bellville
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2-31 Name: Ismael H. Garcia x
2-32 Representing: Jim Wells County Juvenile
2-33 City: Alice
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2-35 Name: Ashley V. Barrern x
2-36 Representing: 229th Judicial District Ct.
2-37 City: San Diego
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2-39 Name: Ana Aguirra x
2-40 Representing: Tx Juvenile Probation Comm.
2-41 City: Austin
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2-43 Name: William D. Power x
2-44 Representing: County Judges & Commissioners
2-45 City: Marshall
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2-47 Name: Billy Joe Plaster x
2-48 Representing: Judges & Commissioners Assoc.
2-49 City: Alvin
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