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.