By Patterson                                           S.B. No. 230
       74R170 DAK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the right to appeal certain decisions by the juvenile
    1-3  court.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 56.01(c), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (c)  An appeal may be taken:
    1-8              (1)  by or on behalf of a child or by the prosecuting
    1-9  attorney from an order entered under:
   1-10                    (A)  Section 54.02 of this code transferring or
   1-11  refusing to <respecting> transfer a <of the> child to criminal
   1-12  court for prosecution as an adult;
   1-13                    (B)  Section 54.03 of this code with regard to
   1-14  delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision;
   1-15                    (C)  Section 54.04 of this code disposing of the
   1-16  case;
   1-17                    (D)  Section 54.05 of this code modifying, or
   1-18  refusing the <respecting> modification of, a previous juvenile
   1-19  court disposition; or
   1-20                    (E)  Chapter 55 of this code committing or
   1-21  refusing to commit a child to a facility for the mentally ill or
   1-22  mentally retarded; or
   1-23              (2)  by a person, including the prosecuting attorney,
   1-24  from an order entered under Section 54.11(i)(2) of this code
    2-1  transferring or refusing to transfer a <the> person to the custody
    2-2  of the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal
    2-3  Justice.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        (b)  This Act applies only to an appeal under Section 56.01,
    2-6  Family Code, of an order by a juvenile court rendered on or after
    2-7  the effective date of this Act.  An appeal of an order rendered
    2-8  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
    2-9  effect at the time the order was rendered, and that law is
   2-10  continued in effect for that purpose.
   2-11        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.