By Chavez                                       H.B. No. 1420

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the enforcement of a juvenile court order for

 1-3     restitution.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.07, Family Code, is amended by adding

 1-6     Subsection (d) to read as follows:

 1-7           (d)  If the juvenile court renders judgment against a child

 1-8     under Subsection (c) for defaulting on the payment of court-ordered

 1-9     restitution, the judgment may be treated as a judgment rendered

1-10     against a parent of the child for the purpose of enforcing the

1-11     judgment under Subsection (c).

1-12           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies

1-13     only to a court order issued in a disposition for conduct that

1-14     occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.  Conduct

1-15     violating a penal law of the state occurs on or after the effective

1-16     date of this Act if every element of the violation occurs on or

1-17     after that date.

1-18           (b)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this

1-19     Act is covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct

1-20     occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that

1-21     purpose.

1-22           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.