By Greenberg, Naishtat, Combs, H.B. No. 592
Dukes, Maxey
74R3377 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of community justice task forces.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 3(b), Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The community justice council shall appoint a community
1-7 justice task force to provide support staff for the development of
1-8 a community justice plan. The task force may consist of any number
1-9 of members, but should include:
1-10 (1) the county or regional director of the Texas
1-11 Department of Human Services with responsibility for the area to be
1-12 served by the department;
1-13 (2) the chief of police of the most populous
1-14 municipality to be served by the department;
1-15 (3) the chief juvenile probation officer of the
1-16 juvenile probation office serving the most populous area to be
1-17 served by the department;
1-18 (4) the superintendent of the most populous school
1-19 district to be served by the department;
1-20 (5) the supervisor of the Department of Public Safety
1-21 region closest to the department, or the supervisor's designee;
1-22 (6) the county or regional director of the Texas
1-23 Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation with
1-24 responsibility for the area to be served by the department;
2-1 (7) a substance abuse treatment professional appointed
2-2 by the Council of Governments serving the area to be served by the
2-3 department;
2-4 (8) the department director;
2-5 (9) the local or regional representative of the
2-6 pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal
2-7 Justice with responsibility for the area to be served by the
2-8 department;
2-9 (10) the representative of the Texas Employment
2-10 Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
2-11 department;
2-12 (11) the representative of the Texas Rehabilitation
2-13 Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
2-14 department;
2-15 (12) a licensed attorney who practices in the area to
2-16 be served by the department and whose practice consists primarily
2-17 of criminal law;
2-18 (13) a court administrator, if one serves the area to
2-19 be served by the department;
2-20 (14) a representative of a community service
2-21 organization that provides adult treatment, educational, or
2-22 vocational services to the area to be served by the department;
2-23 <and>
2-24 (15) a representative of an organization in the area
2-25 to be served by the department that is actively involved in issues
2-26 relating to defendants' rights, chosen by the county commissioners
2-27 and county judges of the counties to be served by the department;
3-1 and
3-2 (16) an advocate for rights of victims of crime and
3-3 awareness of issues affecting victims.
3-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-10 passage, and it is so enacted.