By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 54
(In the Senate - Filed November 10, 2008; February 10, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
April 6, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 6, 2009,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 54 By: Wentworth
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the supervision of certain juvenile case managers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 45.056, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The judge of a court that employs a juvenile case
manager under Subsection (a) or (c) shall supervise the juvenile
case manager, except that the judge may delegate that duty to
another officer of the court who is authorized to conduct hearings
under Title 3, Family Code. The judge may not delegate that duty to
the clerk of the court. This subsection does not apply to a county
court for which the county judge has appointed one or more full-time
magistrates under Section 54.1172, Government Code.
SECTION 2. Subsection (f), Article 45.056, Code of Criminal
Procedure, as added by this Act, applies to the supervision of a
juvenile case manager employed by a court on or after the effective
date of this Act, regardless of whether the juvenile case manager
began that employment before, on, or after the effective date of
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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