By Barrientos                                          S.B. No. 961
       74R3377 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of community justice task forces.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 3(b), Article 42.131, Code of Criminal
    1-5  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The community justice council shall appoint a community
    1-7  justice task force to provide support staff for the development of
    1-8  a community justice plan.  The task force may consist of any number
    1-9  of members, but should include:
   1-10              (1)  the county or regional director of the Texas
   1-11  Department of Human Services with responsibility for the area to be
   1-12  served by the department;
   1-13              (2)  the chief of police of the most populous
   1-14  municipality to be served by the department;
   1-15              (3)  the chief juvenile probation officer of the
   1-16  juvenile probation office serving the most populous area to be
   1-17  served by the department;
   1-18              (4)  the superintendent of the most populous school
   1-19  district to be served by the department;
   1-20              (5)  the supervisor of the Department of Public Safety
   1-21  region closest to the department, or the supervisor's designee;
   1-22              (6)  the county or regional director of the Texas
   1-23  Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation with
   1-24  responsibility for the area to be served by the department;
    2-1              (7)  a substance abuse treatment professional appointed
    2-2  by the Council of Governments serving the area to be served by the
    2-3  department;
    2-4              (8)  the department director;
    2-5              (9)  the local or regional representative of the
    2-6  pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal
    2-7  Justice with responsibility for the area to be served by the
    2-8  department;
    2-9              (10)  the representative of the Texas Employment
   2-10  Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
   2-11  department;
   2-12              (11)  the representative of the Texas Rehabilitation
   2-13  Commission with responsibility for the area to be served by the
   2-14  department;
   2-15              (12)  a licensed attorney who practices in the area to
   2-16  be served by the department and whose practice consists primarily
   2-17  of criminal law;
   2-18              (13)  a court administrator, if one serves the area to
   2-19  be served by the department;
   2-20              (14)  a representative of a community service
   2-21  organization that provides adult treatment, educational, or
   2-22  vocational services to the area to be served by the department;
   2-23  <and>
   2-24              (15)  a representative of an organization in the area
   2-25  to be served by the department that is actively involved in issues
   2-26  relating to defendants' rights, chosen by the county commissioners
   2-27  and county judges of the counties to be served by the department;
    3-1  and
    3-2              (16)  an advocate for rights of victims of crime and
    3-3  awareness of issues affecting victims.
    3-4        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-10  passage, and it is so enacted.