By Dutton                                             H.B. No. 2560
       74R3867 JBN-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to authorizing a juvenile court to require a child on
    1-3  probation to attend a religious education class.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.04, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (m) to read as follows:
    1-7        (m)  A court may require as a term of probation that the
    1-8  child regularly attend a religious education class.  In determining
    1-9  the nature of the class, the court shall consider the religious
   1-10  background of the child and the preferences of the child and the
   1-11  child's parent, guardian, managing conservator, or other custodian
   1-12  with primary responsibility for the care of the child.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-14  applies only to probation imposed for conduct that occurs on or
   1-15  after that date.  Conduct violating the penal law of this state
   1-16  occurs on or after that date if every element of the violation
   1-17  occurs on or after that date.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.