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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