By:  West                                              S.B. No. 810
       73R794 CLG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requiring juvenile probation officers to monitor the
    1-3  school attendance of certain children.
    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.  MONITORING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.  If the court
    1-8  places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) of this code and
    1-9  requires as a condition of probation that the child attend school,
   1-10  the probation officer charged with supervising the child shall
   1-11  monitor the child's school attendance and report to the court if
   1-12  the child is voluntarily absent from school.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.