By West                                          S.B. No. 170

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the rights of a victim of a delinquent child.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.   Section 57.001(3), Family Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6                 (3)  "Victim" means a person who as the result of[:]

 1-7                       [(A)  is the victim of] the delinquent conduct of

 1-8     a child suffers a pecuniary loss or personal injury or harm [that

 1-9     includes  the elements under the penal law of this state of sexual

1-10     assault, kidnapping, or aggravated robbery;]

1-11                       [(B)  has suffered bodily injury or death as a

1-12     result of the conduct of a child that violates a penal law of this

1-13     state;  or]

1-14                       [(C)  is the owner or lessor of property damaged

1-15     or lost as a result of the conduct of a child that violates a penal

1-16     law of this state].

1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.