1-1 By: West S.B. No. 810
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 requiring juvenile probation officers to monitor the
1-18 school attendance of certain children.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-21 Section 54.043 to read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 54.043. MONITORING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. If the court
1-23 places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) of this code and
1-24 requires as a condition of probation that the child attend school,
1-25 the probation officer charged with supervising the child shall
1-26 monitor the child's school attendance and report to the court if
1-27 the child is voluntarily absent from school.
1-28 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-33 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-34 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-36 Austin,
1-37 Texas
1-38 April 28, 1993
1-39 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-40 President of the Senate
1-41 Sir:
1-42 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
1-43 No. 810, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-44 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-45 pass and be printed.
1-46 Whitmire,
1-47 Chairman
1-48 * * * * *
1-49 WITNESSES
1-50 FOR AGAINST ON
1-51 ___________________________________________________________________
1-52 Name: Linda Brooke x
1-53 Representing: Tx Juvenile Probation Commiss
1-54 City: Austin
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1-56 FOR AGAINST ON
1-57 ___________________________________________________________________
1-58 Name: Kevin O'Hanlon X
1-59 Representing: Texas Education Agency
1-60 City: Austin
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