1-1 By: West S.B. No. 806 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1993; March 15, 1993, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 28, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, 1-5 Nays 0; April 28, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Whitmire x 1-9 Brown x 1-10 Nelson x 1-11 Sibley x 1-12 Sims x 1-13 Turner x 1-14 West x 1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-16 AN ACT 1-17 relating to programs that a justice court may require a child to 1-18 attend if the court finds that the child engaged in truant conduct. 1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-20 SECTION 1. Section 54.021, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-21 Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-22 (e) If a school district is authorized by law to provide a 1-23 program that a child may be required to attend under Subsection (d) 1-24 of this section, a county, juvenile board, or community college may 1-25 agree to provide the program jointly with a school district if the 1-26 county includes territory of the school district or if the juvenile 1-27 board serves, or the community college is located in, a county that 1-28 includes territory of the school district. Each entity subject to 1-29 the agreement shall assist in the provision of the program 1-30 according to terms approved by the governing board of each of those 1-31 entities. 1-32 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-38 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-39 * * * * * 1-40 Austin, 1-41 Texas 1-42 April 28, 1993 1-43 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-44 President of the Senate 1-45 Sir: 1-46 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B. 1-47 No. 806, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-48 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-49 pass and be printed. 1-50 Whitmire, 1-51 Chairman 1-52 * * * * * 1-53 WITNESSES 1-54 FOR AGAINST ON 1-55 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-56 Name: Linda Brooke x 1-57 Representing: Tx Juvenile Probation Comm 1-58 City: Austin 1-59 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-60 Name: Kevin O'Hanlon x 1-61 Representing: Tx Education Agency 1-62 City: Austin 1-63 -------------------------------------------------------------------