By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 384
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to state aid for counties that provide secure residential
    1-2  care facilities for certain delinquent children.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 141, Human Resources Code,
    1-5  is amended by adding Section 141.086 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 141.086.  PROVISION OF SECURE RESIDENTIAL CARE
    1-7  FACILITIES.  (a)  The commission shall provide state aid to
    1-8  counties that provide secure residential care facilities for
    1-9  children found to have engaged in delinquent conduct who are placed
   1-10  on probation in the facilities by a juvenile court under Section
   1-11  54.04, Family Code, as an alternative to commitment to the
   1-12  facilities of the Texas Youth Commission.
   1-13        (b)  Each fiscal year, the commission shall provide aid as
   1-14  provided by this section from funds appropriated to the commission.
   1-15        (c)  The commission shall adopt standards for the provision
   1-16  of state aid under this section and shall monitor the effectiveness
   1-17  of the aid.
   1-18        (d)  State aid provided by the commission under this section
   1-19  is in addition to any state aid provided by the commission for any
   1-20  other services or facilities.
   1-21        (e)  A portion of the state aid appropriated to the
   1-22  commission under this section shall be used to establish juvenile
   1-23  boot camps in five regions of the state as designated by the
   1-24  commission.
    2-1        (f)  In this section, "secure residential care facility"
    2-2  means a locked facility.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.