By Nixon H.B. No. 2558
75R8050 DAK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appeal of juvenile cases.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 56.01(a), Family Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (a) An appeal from an order of a juvenile court is to a
1-7 court of appeals and the case may be carried to the [Texas Supreme]
1-8 Court of Criminal Appeals [by writ of error or upon certificate,]
1-9 as in criminal [civil] cases generally.
1-10 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 (b) This Act applies only to the appeal of an order relating
1-12 to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-13 Conduct violating the penal law of this state occurs on or after
1-14 the effective date of this Act if any element of the violation
1-15 occurs on or after that date.
1-16 (c) An appeal of an order relating to conduct that occurs
1-17 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
1-18 effect at the time the conduct occurred, and that law is continued
1-19 in effect for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.