By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1571
         99S0393/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to venue in juvenile delinquency proceedings.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 51.06, Family Code, is
 1-4     amended to read as follows:
 1-5           (a)  A proceeding under this title shall be commenced in[:]
 1-6                 [(1)  the county in which the child resides; or]
 1-7                 [(2)]  the county in which the alleged delinquent
 1-8     conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision occurred.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.