| TO: | Honorable Tan Parker, Chair, House Committee on Corrections |
| FROM: | Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
| IN RE: | SB511 by Whitmire (Relating to the commitment of certain juveniles to local post-adjudication secure correctional facilities in certain counties and to the release under supervision of those juveniles.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Family Code and the Human Resources Code to allow a juvenile court in a county which has a population of more than one million and less than 1.5 million to commit juveniles adjudicated for a felony offense to the county's local post-adjudication secure correctional facility. The bill would also authorize a local juvenile probation department affected by the bill to provide parole supervision for juveniles committed to and released from a local post-adjudication secure correctional facility.
Based on the 2010 U.S. Census, Travis County is the only county with a population of more than one million and less than 1.5 million. In fiscal year 2012, a total of 11 juveniles from Travis County were committed to Juvenile Justice Department (JJD) correctional facilities. The number of juveniles that Travis County would determine could be committed to its own facilities instead of JJD facilities is indeterminate. However, it is assumed that any general revenue savings resulting from implementing the provisions of the bill would not constitute a significant fiscal impact to the State. The bill would take effect on December 1, 2013, and expire on December 31, 2018.
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| LBB Staff: | UP, ESi, AI, KNi, JPo, KKR
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