1-1 By: West S.B. No. 146
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 16, 1994; January 17, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 15, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 15, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: West
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 146, SECTION 1, by striking Subdivision (4),
1-8 Subsection (a), Section 3, Article 42.131, and substituting the
1-9 following:
1-10 (4) not more than two state legislators elected from a
1-11 county to be served by the department, or in a county with a
1-12 population of one million or more to be served by the department,
1-13 not more than one state senator and one state representative
1-14 elected from the county, chosen by the state legislators elected
1-15 from the county or counties to be served by the department;
1-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17 AN ACT
1-18 relating to membership on community justice councils by state
1-19 senators and representatives.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 3, Article 42.131, Code
1-22 of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) A community justice council must be established by the
1-24 district judge or judges in each jurisdiction served by a
1-25 department, unless a board or council exists in the community on
1-26 September 1, 1991, that performs duties substantially similar to
1-27 those imposed on a community justice council under this section.
1-28 The council shall provide continuing policy guidance and direction
1-29 for the development of community justice plans and community
1-30 corrections facilities and programs. A council should consist of
1-31 the following persons or their designees:
1-32 (1) a sheriff of a county to be served by the
1-33 department, chosen by the sheriffs of the counties to be served by
1-34 the department;
1-35 (2) a county commissioner or a county judge from a
1-36 county to be served by the department, chosen by the county
1-37 commissioners and county judges of the counties to be served by the
1-38 department;
1-39 (3) a city council member of the most populous
1-40 municipality in a county to be served by the department, chosen by
1-41 the members of the city councils of cities to be served by the
1-42 department;
1-43 (4) not more than one <two> state senator and one
1-44 state representative <legislators> elected from a county to be
1-45 served by the department, chosen by the state legislators elected
1-46 from the counties to be served by the department;
1-47 (5) the presiding judge from a judicial district to be
1-48 served by the department, chosen by the district judges from the
1-49 judicial districts to be served by the department;
1-50 (6) a judge of a statutory county court exercising
1-51 criminal jurisdiction in a county to be served by the department,
1-52 to be chosen by the judges of statutory county courts with criminal
1-53 jurisdiction in the counties to be served by the department;
1-54 (7) a county attorney with criminal jurisdiction from
1-55 a county to be served by the department, chosen by the county
1-56 attorneys with criminal jurisdiction from the counties to be served
1-57 by the department;
1-58 (8) a district attorney or criminal district attorney
1-59 from a judicial district to be served by the department, chosen by
1-60 the district attorneys or criminal district attorneys from the
1-61 judicial districts to be served by the department; and
1-62 (9) an elected member of the board of trustees of an
1-63 independent school district in a county to be served by the
1-64 department, chosen by the members of the boards of trustees of
1-65 independent school districts located in counties to be served by
1-66 the department.
1-67 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-68 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.
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