By Henderson                                           S.B. No. 577
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 577:
          By Cook                                            C.S.S.B. No. 577
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to pleas entered by a minor in justice or municipal court.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 45, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended by adding Article 45.331 to read as follows:
    1-6        Article 45.331.  PLEA BY MINOR.  (a)  A plea of defendant who
    1-7  is younger than 17 years of age, except as otherwise provided by
    1-8  law, and who has not had the disabilities of minority removed must
    1-9  be made in open court with the defendant's parent, guardian or
   1-10  managing conservator present.
   1-11        (b)  The court may cause one or both parents, guardian or
   1-12  managing conservator to be summoned to appear in Court and may
   1-13  require them to be present during all proceedings in the case.
   1-14        (c)  The court for good cause may waive the requirement of
   1-15  the presence of parents, a guardian or managing conservator under
   1-16  Section (a) of this act, or Section 106.11, Alcoholic Beverage Code
   1-17  and Article 6701 l-4, Section 1(a), VCS and the personal appearance
   1-18  of the defendant under Section (a) of this act or Section 106.10,
   1-19  Alcoholic Beverage Code and Article 6701 l-4, Section 1(a), VCS.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.