S.B. No. 146 AN ACT 1-1 relating to membership on community justice councils by state 1-2 senators and representatives. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3, Article 42.131, Code 1-5 of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) A community justice council must be established by the 1-7 district judge or judges in each jurisdiction served by a 1-8 department, unless a board or council exists in the community on 1-9 September 1, 1991, that performs duties substantially similar to 1-10 those imposed on a community justice council under this section. 1-11 The council shall provide continuing policy guidance and direction 1-12 for the development of community justice plans and community 1-13 corrections facilities and programs. A council should consist of 1-14 the following persons or their designees: 1-15 (1) a sheriff of a county to be served by the 1-16 department, chosen by the sheriffs of the counties to be served by 1-17 the department; 1-18 (2) a county commissioner or a county judge from a 1-19 county to be served by the department, chosen by the county 1-20 commissioners and county judges of the counties to be served by the 1-21 department; 1-22 (3) a city council member of the most populous 1-23 municipality in a county to be served by the department, chosen by 2-1 the members of the city councils of cities to be served by the 2-2 department; 2-3 (4) not more than two state legislators elected from a 2-4 county to be served by the department, or in a county with a 2-5 population of one million or more to be served by the department, 2-6 not more than one state senator and one state representative 2-7 elected from the county, chosen by the state legislators elected 2-8 from the county or counties to be served by the department; 2-9 (5) the presiding judge from a judicial district to be 2-10 served by the department, chosen by the district judges from the 2-11 judicial districts to be served by the department; 2-12 (6) a judge of a statutory county court exercising 2-13 criminal jurisdiction in a county to be served by the department, 2-14 to be chosen by the judges of statutory county courts with criminal 2-15 jurisdiction in the counties to be served by the department; 2-16 (7) a county attorney with criminal jurisdiction from 2-17 a county to be served by the department, chosen by the county 2-18 attorneys with criminal jurisdiction from the counties to be served 2-19 by the department; 2-20 (8) a district attorney or criminal district attorney 2-21 from a judicial district to be served by the department, chosen by 2-22 the district attorneys or criminal district attorneys from the 2-23 judicial districts to be served by the department; and 2-24 (9) an elected member of the board of trustees of an 2-25 independent school district in a county to be served by the 3-1 department, chosen by the members of the boards of trustees of 3-2 independent school districts located in counties to be served by 3-3 the department. 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.