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Amend CSSB 103 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 25, lines 17 and 18, strike "61.0386, 61.0451, 61.0452, 61.0461, 61.061, 61.062, and 61.0651" and substitute "and
61.0386".
(2) On page 30, between lines 9 and 10, insert the
following:
SECTION ____. Section 61.0423, Human Resources Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 61.0423. PUBLIC HEARINGS. (a) The board shall develop
and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable
opportunity to appear before the board and to speak on any issue
under the jurisdiction of the commission.
(b) The board shall ensure that the location of public
hearings held in accordance with this section is rotated between
municipalities in which a commission facility is located or that
are in proximity to a commission facility.
SECTION ____. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Human Resources
Code, is amended by adding Sections 61.0451, 61.0452, 61.0461,
61.061, 61.062, and 61.0651 to read as follows:
(3) On page 54, line 2, between "governor," and "and",
insert "the state auditor,".
(4) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to
the bill and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding
Section 54.0401 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.0401. COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS. (a) This section
applies only to a county that has a population of at least 335,000.
(b) A juvenile court of a county to which this section
applies may require a child who is found to have engaged in
delinquent conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of
misdemeanor and for whom the requirements of Subsection (c) are met
to participate in a community-based program administered by the
county's juvenile board.
(c) A juvenile court of a county to which this section
applies may make a disposition under Subsection (b) for delinquent
conduct that violates a penal law of the grade of misdemeanor:
(1) if:
(A) the child has been adjudicated as having
engaged in delinquent conduct violating a penal law of the grade of
misdemeanor on at least two previous occasions;
(B) of the previous adjudications, the conduct
that was the basis for one of the adjudications occurred after the
date of another previous adjudication; and
(C) the conduct that is the basis of the current
adjudication occurred after the date of at least two previous
adjudications; or
(2) if:
(A) the child has been adjudicated as having
engaged in delinquent conduct violating a penal law of the grade of
felony on at least one previous occasion; and
(B) the conduct that is the basis of the current
adjudication occurred after the date of that previous adjudication.
(d) The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission shall establish
guidelines for the implementation of community-based programs
described by this section. The juvenile board of each county to
which this section applies shall implement a community-based
program that complies with those guidelines.
(e) The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission shall provide
grants to selected juvenile boards to assist with the
implementation of a system of community-based programs under this
section.
(f) Not later than January 1, 2009, the Texas Juvenile
Probation Commission shall prepare and deliver to the governor, the
lieutenant governor, and each member of the legislature a report
describing the implementation and effectiveness of the
community-based programs described by this section. The report
must include information relating to the cost of requiring a child
to participate in a community-based program.
SECTION ____. (a) Not later than November 1, 2007, the
Texas Juvenile Probation Commission shall issue guidelines for the
creation of community-based programs required by Section 54.0401,
Family Code, as added by this Act.
(b) Not later than January 1, 2008, the juvenile board of a
county to which Section 54.0401, Family code, as added by this Act,
applies shall implement a community-based program that complies
with the guidelines established by the Texas Juvenile Probation
Commission.