By: Watson S.B. No. 1350
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2017; March 14, 2017, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
Nays 0; April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 261.101(e), Human Resources Code, as
amended by Section 11(a), Chapter 854 (S.B. 1149), and Chapter 962
(S.B. 1630), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015,
is reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
the powers of the office include:
(1) facilities operated and services provided by the
department under Subtitle C;
(2) post-adjudication correctional facilities under
Section 51.125, Family Code, or Section 152.0016 of this code;
(3) any other residential facility in which a child
adjudicated as having engaged in conduct indicating a need for
supervision or delinquent conduct is placed by court order; and
(4) the investigation of complaints alleging a
violation of the rights of the children placed in a facility
described by Subdivision (2) or (3).
SECTION 2. The following provisions are repealed:
(1) Section 54.04011(f), Family Code;
(2) Sections 152.0016(l) and 261.101(f), Human
Resources Code; and
(3) Section 11(b), Chapter 854 (S.B. 1149), Acts of
the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, which added Section
261.101(e), Human Resources Code.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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