By Puente H.B. No. 1153 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the placement of a child in a county detention facility 1-3 as a condition of probation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Section 54.0406 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 54.0406. CHILD PLACED IN COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY AS 1-8 CONDITION OF PROBATION. (a) If a court or jury makes a 1-9 disposition under Section 54.04(d)(1) in which a child is placed on 1-10 probation, the court may, as a condition of the probation, place 1-11 the child for not more than 30 days in a certified juvenile 1-12 detention facility operated by or under contract with the county in 1-13 which the disposition is made. The court may place the child in a 1-14 detention facility at the time the court makes the disposition 1-15 placing the child on probation or at any time during the period of 1-16 probation in an order to modify the disposition under Section 1-17 54.05. 1-18 (b) A court may place a child in a certified juvenile 1-19 detention facility as provided by Subsection (a) more than once 1-20 during the same period of probation, except that the total amount 1-21 of time that the child is placed in a detention facility may not 1-22 exceed 30 days. 1-23 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-24 only to a child placed on probation for conduct that occurs on or 2-1 after the effective date of this Act. Conduct violating a penal 2-2 law of the state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act 2-3 if every element of the violation occurs on or after that date. 2-4 (b) A child placed on probation for conduct that occurs 2-5 before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in 2-6 effect at the time the conduct occurred, and the former law is 2-7 continued in effect for that purpose. 2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.