By Alvarado                                            H.B. No. 461
       74R2533 DAK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the placement by the juvenile court of certain children
    1-3  serving determinate sentences on community supervision.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.11, Family Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (k) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (i)  On conclusion of the release hearing on a person who is
    1-9  the subject of a notice of transfer, the court may order:
   1-10              (1)  the recommitment of the person to the Texas Youth
   1-11  Commission without a determinate sentence;
   1-12              (2)  the transfer of the person to the custody of the
   1-13  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   1-14  for the completion of the person's determinate sentence; <or>
   1-15              (3)  the imposition of the remainder of the person's
   1-16  determinate sentence to be served in the custody of the
   1-17  institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   1-18  and the suspension of that sentence by placing the person on
   1-19  community supervision under Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
   1-20  Procedure, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as
   1-21  if the court had, as a district court, sentenced the person as a
   1-22  convicted felon and suspended the sentence by placing the person on
   1-23  community supervision; or
   1-24              (4)  the final discharge of the person.
    2-1        (k)  A court that suspends a sentence and places a person on
    2-2  community supervision as provided by Subsection (i)(3) retains
    2-3  jurisdiction over the person until the conditions relating to the
    2-4  community supervision are satisfied or the court revokes the
    2-5  community supervision and reinstates the sentence.  On
    2-6  reinstatement of the sentence, the court shall transfer the person
    2-7  to the custody of the institutional division of the Texas
    2-8  Department of Criminal Justice for the completion of the person's
    2-9  determinate sentence.
   2-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.