Amend CSHB 3689 (house committee printing) by striking 
SECTION 4.008 of the bill (page 35, line 26 through page 37, line 
11) and substituting the following:
	SECTION 4.008.  Section 141.042, Human Resources Code, is 
amended by amending Subsections (a), (e), and (h) and adding 
Subsections (d), (f), (i), and (j) to read as follows:
	(a)  The commission shall adopt reasonable rules that 
provide:               
		(1)  minimum standards for personnel, staffing, case 
loads, programs, facilities, record keeping, equipment, and other 
aspects of the operation of a juvenile board that are necessary to 
provide adequate and effective probation services;
		(2)  a code of ethics for probation and detention 
officers and for the enforcement of that code;
		(3)  appropriate educational, preservice and 
in-service training, and certification standards for probation and 
detention officers or court-supervised community-based program 
personnel;
		(4)  subject to Subsection (d), minimum standards for 
public and private juvenile pre-adjudication secure detention 
facilities, public juvenile post-adjudication secure correctional 
facilities that are operated under the authority of a juvenile 
board or governmental unit, [and] private juvenile 
post-adjudication secure correctional facilities operated under a 
contract with a governmental unit, except those facilities exempt 
from certification by Section 42.052(g), and nonsecure 
correctional facilities operated by or under contract with a 
governmental unit; and
		(5)  minimum standards for juvenile justice 
alternative education programs created under Section 37.011, 
Education Code, in collaboration and conjunction with the Texas 
Education Agency, or its designee.
	(d)  In adopting rules under Subsection (a)(4), the 
commission shall ensure that the minimum standards for facilities 
described by Subsection (a)(4) are designed to ensure that 
juveniles confined in those facilities are provided the rights, 
benefits, responsibilities, and privileges to which a juvenile is 
entitled under the United States Constitution, federal law, and the 
constitution and laws of this state.  The minimum standards must 
include a humane physical and psychological environment, safe 
conditions of confinement, protection from harm, adequate 
rehabilitation and education, adequate medical and mental health 
treatment, and due process of law.
	(e)  Juvenile probation departments shall use the mental 
health screening instrument selected by the commission for the 
initial screening of children under the jurisdiction of probation 
departments who have been formally referred to the department.  The 
commission shall give priority to training in the use of this 
instrument in any preservice or in-service training that the 
commission provides for probation officers.  A clinical assessment 
by a licensed mental health professional may be substituted for the 
mental health screening instrument selected by the commission if 
the clinical assessment is performed in the time prescribed by the 
commission[.  Juvenile probation departments shall report data from 
the use of the screening instrument or the clinical assessment to 
the commission in a format and in the time prescribed by the 
commission].
	(f)  A juvenile probation department must, before the 
disposition of a child's case and using a validated risk and needs 
assessment instrument or process provided or approved by the 
commission, complete a risk and needs assessment for each child 
under the jurisdiction of the juvenile probation department.
	(h)  A juvenile board that does not accept state aid funding 
from the commission under Section 141.081 shall report to the 
commission each month on a form provided by the commission the same 
data as that required of counties accepting state aid funding 
regarding juvenile justice activities under the jurisdiction of the 
juvenile board.  If the commission makes available free software to 
the juvenile board for the automation and tracking of juveniles 
under the jurisdiction of the juvenile board, the commission may 
require the monthly report to be provided in an electronic format 
adopted by [rule by] the commission.
	(i)  A juvenile probation department shall report data from 
the use of the screening instrument or clinical assessment under 
Subsection (e) and the risk and needs assessment under Subsection 
(f) to the commission in the format and at the time prescribed by 
the commission.
	(j)  The commission shall adopt rules to ensure that youth in 
the juvenile justice system are assessed using the screening 
instrument or clinical assessment under Subsection (e) and the risk 
and needs assessment under Subsection (f).