1-1     By:  King (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)                H.B. No. 2065

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1997;

 1-3     May 13, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal

 1-4     Justice; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the statistical recording of juvenile cases initially

 1-9     referred to the office of the prosecuting attorney.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 52.04, Family Code, is amended by adding

1-12     Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-13           (c)  If the office of the prosecuting attorney is designated

1-14     by the juvenile court to conduct the preliminary investigation

1-15     under Section 53.01, the referring entity shall first transfer the

1-16     child's case to the juvenile probation department for statistical

1-17     reporting purposes only.  On the creation of a statistical record

1-18     or file for the case, the probation department shall promptly

1-19     forward the case to the prosecuting attorney for review under

1-20     Section 53.01.

1-21           SECTION 2.  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

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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