By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 1003 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to provisions governing a comprehensive assessment of a 1-3 juvenile offender when the offender first is referred to the 1-4 juvenile court. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 53.01, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-7 subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) If the intake officer, probation officer, or other 1-9 person authorized by the court determines that the child referred 1-10 to juvenile court is a child within the meaning of this title, that 1-11 there is probable cause to believe that the child engaged in 1-12 delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision, 1-13 and that further proceedings in the case are in the interest of the 1-14 child or the public, the office or official designated by the 1-15 juvenile court shall conduct a comprehensive assessment of the 1-16 child, a copy of which shall be transferred to the juvenile court. 1-17 The comprehensive assessment shall include information relevant to 1-18 the child's physical, emotional, and educational needs and history 1-19 and shall contain a recommendation regarding whether the child 1-20 needs social services, in addition to sanctions imposed by the 1-21 court. In preparing the comprehensive assessment, the office or 1-22 official designated by the juvenile court shall consider all 1-23 relevant information regarding the child, which shall include, but 2-1 not be limited to, written reports from probation officers, 2-2 professional court employees, or professional consultants. 2-3 SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause, 2-4 or part of this Act shall, for any reason, by held invalid, such 2-5 invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and 2-6 it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to 2-7 have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of 2-8 the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be 2-9 declared invalid. 2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995. 2-11 SECTION 4. 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 bill to be read on three several days 2-15 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.