By King                                         H.B. No. 2065

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the statistical recording of juvenile cases initially

 1-3     referred to the office of the prosecuting attorney.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 52.04, Family Code, is amended by adding

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

 1-7           (c)  If the office of the prosecuting attorney is designated

 1-8     by the juvenile court to conduct the preliminary investigation

 1-9     under Section 53.01, the referring entity shall first transfer the

1-10     child's case to the juvenile probation department for statistical

1-11     reporting purposes only.  On the creation of a statistical record

1-12     or file for the case, the probation department shall promptly

1-13     forward the case to the prosecuting attorney for review under

1-14     Section 53.01.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.