1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to standards adopted for and registry of juvenile

 1-3     pre-adjudication and post-adjudication secure detention and

 1-4     correctional facilities by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Sections 141.042(a), (c), and (d), Human

 1-7     Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  The commission shall adopt reasonable rules that

 1-9     provide:

1-10                 (1)  minimum standards for personnel, staffing, case

1-11     loads, programs, facilities, record keeping, equipment, and other

1-12     aspects of the operation of a juvenile board that are necessary to

1-13     provide adequate and effective probation services;

1-14                 (2)  a code of ethics for probation officers and for

1-15     the enforcement of that code;

1-16                 (3)  appropriate educational, preservice and in-service

1-17     training, and certification standards for probation officers or

1-18     court-supervised community-based program personnel; and

1-19                 (4)  minimum standards for public and private juvenile

1-20     pre-adjudication secure detention facilities, public juvenile

1-21     post-adjudication [juvenile] secure correctional facilities that

1-22     are operated under the authority of a juvenile board, and private

1-23     juvenile post-adjudication [juvenile] secure correctional

1-24     facilities, except those facilities exempt from certification by

 2-1     Section 42.052(e).

 2-2           (c)  The commission shall operate a statewide registry for

 2-3     all public and private juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention

 2-4     facilities and all public and private juvenile post-adjudication

 2-5     secure correctional facilities except a facility operated or

 2-6     certified by  the Texas Youth Commission [annually monitor

 2-7     compliance with the standards established under Subsection (a)(4)

 2-8     if the juvenile board has elected to comply with those standards or

 2-9     shall annually ensure that the facility is certified by the

2-10     American Correctional Association if the juvenile board has elected

2-11     to comply with those standards].

2-12           (d)  The commission shall annually inspect all public and

2-13     private juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention facilities and

2-14     all public and private juvenile post-adjudication secure

2-15     correctional facilities except a facility operated or certified by

2-16     the Texas Youth Commission and shall annually monitor compliance

2-17     with the standards established under Subsection (a)(4) if the

2-18     juvenile board has elected to comply with those standards or shall

2-19     annually ensure that the facility is certified by the American

2-20     Correctional Association if the juvenile board has elected to

2-21     comply with those standards [any private, post-adjudication

2-22     juvenile secure correctional facility if the juvenile board of the

2-23     county in which the facility is located has not inspected it during

2-24     the previous year, except a facility exempt from certification by

2-25     Section 42.052(e)].

2-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 3-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 3-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 3-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 3-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2749 was passed by the House on May

         6, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2749 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor