1-1  By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 384
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 1995; January 31, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  April 7, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 7, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 384                 By:  Montford
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to state aid for counties that provide secure residential
   1-11  care facilities for certain delinquent children.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 141, Human Resources Code,
   1-14  is amended by adding Section 141.086 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 141.086.  PROVISION OF SECURE RESIDENTIAL CARE
   1-16  FACILITIES.  (a)  The commission shall provide state aid to
   1-17  counties that provide secure residential care facilities for
   1-18  children found to have engaged in delinquent conduct who are placed
   1-19  on probation in the facilities by a juvenile court under Section
   1-20  54.04, Family Code, as an alternative to commitment to the
   1-21  facilities of the Texas Youth Commission.
   1-22        (b)  Each fiscal year, the commission shall provide aid as
   1-23  provided by this section from funds appropriated to the commission.
   1-24        (c)  The commission shall adopt standards for the provision
   1-25  of state aid under this section and shall monitor the effectiveness
   1-26  of the aid.
   1-27        (d)  State aid provided by the commission under this section
   1-28  is in addition to any state aid provided by the commission for any
   1-29  other services or facilities.
   1-30        (e)  A portion of the state aid appropriated to the
   1-31  commission under this section shall be used to establish juvenile
   1-32  boot camps in five regions of the state as designated by the
   1-33  commission.
   1-34        (f)  In this section, "secure residential care facility"
   1-35  means a locked facility.
   1-36        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-37        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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