1-1 By: Greenberg, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 592
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 27, 1995;
1-3 March 29, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Criminal Justice; May 2, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 2, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the composition of community justice task forces.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 3(b), Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
1-11 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) The community justice council shall appoint a community
1-13 justice task force to provide support staff for the development of
1-14 a community justice plan. The task force may consist of any number
1-15 of members, but should include:
1-16 (1) the county or regional director of the Texas
1-17 Department of Human Services with responsibility for the area to be
1-18 served by the department;
1-19 (2) the chief of police of the most populous
1-20 municipality to be served by the department;
1-21 (3) the chief juvenile probation officer of the
1-22 juvenile probation office serving the most populous area to be
1-23 served by the department;
1-24 (4) the superintendent of the most populous school
1-25 district to be served by the department;
1-26 (5) the supervisor of the Department of Public Safety
1-27 region closest to the department, or the supervisor's designee;
1-28 (6) the county or regional director of the Texas
1-29 Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation with
1-30 responsibility for the area to be served by the department;
1-31 (7) a substance abuse treatment professional appointed
1-32 by the Council of Governments serving the area to be served by the
1-33 department;
1-34 (8) the department director;
1-35 (9) the local or regional representative of the
1-36 pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal
1-37 Justice with responsibility for the area to be served by the
1-38 department;
1-39 (10) the representative of the Texas Employment
1-40 Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
1-41 department;
1-42 (11) the representative of the Texas Rehabilitation
1-43 Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
1-44 department;
1-45 (12) a licensed attorney who practices in the area to
1-46 be served by the department and whose practice consists primarily
1-47 of criminal law;
1-48 (13) a court administrator, if one serves the area to
1-49 be served by the department;
1-50 (14) a representative of a community service
1-51 organization that provides adult treatment, educational, or
1-52 vocational services to the area to be served by the department;
1-53 <and>
1-54 (15) a representative of an organization in the area
1-55 to be served by the department that is actively involved in issues
1-56 relating to defendants' rights, chosen by the county commissioners
1-57 and county judges of the counties to be served by the department;
1-58 and
1-59 (16) an advocate for rights of victims of crime and
1-60 awareness of issues affecting victims.
1-61 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-62 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-63 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-64 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-65 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-66 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-67 passage, and it is so enacted.
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