By: West S.B. No. 146
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 one <two> state senator and one
2-4 state representative <legislators> elected from a county to be
2-5 served by the department, chosen by the state legislators elected
2-6 from the counties to be served by the department;
2-7 (5) the presiding judge from a judicial district to be
2-8 served by the department, chosen by the district judges from the
2-9 judicial districts to be served by the department;
2-10 (6) a judge of a statutory county court exercising
2-11 criminal jurisdiction in a county to be served by the department,
2-12 to be chosen by the judges of statutory county courts with criminal
2-13 jurisdiction in the counties to be served by the department;
2-14 (7) a county attorney with criminal jurisdiction from
2-15 a county to be served by the department, chosen by the county
2-16 attorneys with criminal jurisdiction from the counties to be served
2-17 by the department;
2-18 (8) a district attorney or criminal district attorney
2-19 from a judicial district to be served by the department, chosen by
2-20 the district attorneys or criminal district attorneys from the
2-21 judicial districts to be served by the department; and
2-22 (9) an elected member of the board of trustees of an
2-23 independent school district in a county to be served by the
2-24 department, chosen by the members of the boards of trustees of
2-25 independent school districts located in counties to be served by
3-1 the department.
3-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-8 passage, and it is so enacted.