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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