By Duncan, Yost, Walker                                H.B. No. 953
       74R3555 DD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to state aid for counties that provide secure residential
    1-3  care facilities for certain delinquent children.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 141, Human Resources Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 141.086 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 141.086.  PROVISION OF SECURE RESIDENTIAL CARE
    1-8  FACILITIES.  (a)  The commission shall provide state aid to
    1-9  counties that provide secure residential care facilities for
   1-10  children found to have engaged in delinquent conduct who are placed
   1-11  on probation in the facilities by a juvenile court under Section
   1-12  54.04, Family Code, as an alternative to commitment to the
   1-13  facilities of the Texas Youth Commission.
   1-14        (b)  Each fiscal year, the commission shall provide aid as
   1-15  provided by this section from funds appropriated to the commission.
   1-16        (c)  The commission shall adopt standards for the provision
   1-17  of state aid under this section and shall monitor the effectiveness
   1-18  of the aid.
   1-19        (d)  State aid provided by the commission under this section
   1-20  is in addition to any state aid provided by the commission for any
   1-21  other services or facilities.
   1-22        (e)  In this section, "secure residential care facility"
   1-23  means a locked facility.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.