1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1886

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;

 1-4     April 23, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 23, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the inclusion by the juvenile justice information

 1-9     system of information on all offenses involving damage to property

1-10     with graffiti.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 58.104, Family Code, is amended by adding

1-13     Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-14           (g)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the juvenile justice

1-15     information system shall consist of information relating to conduct

1-16     by a juvenile that, if the conduct had been committed by an adult,

1-17     would constitute a criminal offense under Section 28.03(a)(3),

1-18     Penal Code, without regard to whether the offense is punishable by

1-19     fine only.

1-20           SECTION 2.  (a) This Act applies only to the collection of

1-21     information about conduct that occurs on or after the effective

1-22     date of this Act.  Conduct violating the penal law of this state

1-23     occurs on or after the effective date of this Act if any element of

1-24     the violation occurs on or after that date.

1-25           (b)  The collection of information about conduct that occurs

1-26     before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in

1-27     effect at the time the conduct occurred, and that law is continued

1-28     in effect for that purpose.

1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-34     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-35     passage, and it is so enacted.

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