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.
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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
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1-60 Name: Kevin O'Hanlon x
1-61 Representing: Tx Education Agency
1-62 City: Austin
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