1-1 By: West S.B. No. 1571
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 12, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 12, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1571 By: West
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to venue in certain proceedings concerning juvenile
1-11 delinquency or conduct indicating a need for supervision.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 51.06, Family Code, is
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) A proceeding under this title shall be commenced in[:]
1-16 (1) [the county in which the child resides; or]
1-17 [(2)] the county in which the alleged delinquent
1-18 conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision occurred; or
1-19 (2) the county in which the child resides at the time
1-20 the petition is filed, but only if:
1-21 (A) the child was under probation supervision in
1-22 that county at the time of the commission of the delinquent conduct
1-23 or conduct indicating a need for supervision;
1-24 (B) it cannot be determined in which county the
1-25 delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision
1-26 occurred; or
1-27 (C) the county in which the child resides agrees
1-28 to accept the case for prosecution, in writing, prior to the case
1-29 being sent to the county of residence for prosecution.
1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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