By:  Gallegos                                          S.B. No. 806
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to county programs for volunteers to be mentors and
    1-2  counselors for juveniles found to have engaged in conduct
    1-3  indicating a need for supervision.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subtitle B, Title 11, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Chapter 353 to read as follows:
    1-7    CHAPTER 353.  COUNTY PROGRAMS FOR JUVENILES NEEDING SUPERVISION
    1-8        Sec. 353.001.  PROGRAM CREATION.  A county may create a
    1-9  program in which persons volunteer to be mentors and counselors for
   1-10  juveniles who are found to have engaged in conduct indicating a
   1-11  need for supervision.
   1-12        Sec. 353.002.  ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE FUNDS.  A county that
   1-13  establishes a mentorship and counseling program under this chapter
   1-14  is eligible to receive state funds from the Texas Juvenile
   1-15  Probation Commission:
   1-16              (1)  to be used for expenses related to the program,
   1-17  including the salary of the executive director to administer the
   1-18  program; and
   1-19              (2)  in an amount equal to the amount spent by the
   1-20  county on the program but not to exceed $10,000.
   1-21        Sec. 353.003.  APPLICATION FOR STATE FUNDS.  (a)  A county
   1-22  that is eligible for state funds under this chapter must submit an
   1-23  application to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission describing
    2-1  the mentorship and counseling program and detailing the amount of
    2-2  money the county has spent or is obligated to spend under the
    2-3  program.
    2-4        (b)  The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission may require a
    2-5  county to submit additional information if necessary to make an
    2-6  eligibility determination.
    2-7        Sec. 353.004.  APPLICATION DEADLINES.  The Texas Juvenile
    2-8  Probation Commission by rule may establish annual application
    2-9  submission dates for a county to qualify for consideration for
   2-10  funds to be distributed for a fiscal year for a program described
   2-11  in Section 353.001.
   2-12        Sec. 353.005.  PAYMENT OF STATE FUNDS.  The Texas Juvenile
   2-13  Probation Commission shall pay a county submitting an application
   2-14  under this chapter from funds appropriated to the commission for
   2-15  that purpose and may pay only a portion of the amount claimed if
   2-16  the amount appropriated is insufficient to pay all claims submitted
   2-17  or anticipated under this chapter.
   2-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-24  passage, and it is so enacted.