By: McClendon, Madden, Hodge H.B. No. 3316
        (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2009;
  May 13, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
  Justice; May 22, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 22, 2009, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to venue for certain offenses committed at Texas Youth
  Commission facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Article 13.34 to read as follows:
         Art. 13.34.  CERTAIN OFFENSES COMMITTED AGAINST A CHILD
  COMMITTED TO THE TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION. An offense described by
  Article 104.003(a) committed by an employee or officer of the Texas
  Youth Commission or a person providing services under a contract
  with the commission against a child committed to the commission may
  be prosecuted in:
               (1)  any county in which an element of the offense
  occurred; or
               (2)  Travis County.
         SECTION 2.  Section 61.098(b), Human Resources Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  As appropriate, the district attorney, criminal
  district attorney, or county attorney representing the state in
  criminal matters before the district or inferior courts of the
  county who would otherwise represent the state in the prosecution
  of an offense or delinquent conduct concerning the commission and
  described by Article 104.003(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, may
  request that the special prosecution unit prosecute, or assist in
  the prosecution of, the offense or delinquent conduct.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
  this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
  this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
 
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