Bill Text: TX SB1702 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the powers and duties of the office of independent ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1702 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1702-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1702 |
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relating to the powers and duties of the office of independent | ||
ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 261.101, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, | ||
the powers of the office include: | ||
(1) the inspection of: | ||
(A) a facility operated by the department under | ||
Subtitle C; | ||
(B) a post-adjudication secure correctional | ||
facility under Section 51.125, Family Code; | ||
(C) a nonsecure correctional facility under | ||
Section 51.126, Family Code; and | ||
(D) 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 | ||
(2) the investigation of complaints alleging a | ||
violation of the rights of the children committed to or placed in a | ||
facility described by this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. The following provisions of the Human Resources | ||
Code are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 261.101(e), as added by Section 11(b), | ||
Chapter 854 (S.B. 1149), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2015; and | ||
(2) Section 261.101(e), as amended by Chapter 962 | ||
(S.B. 1630), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1702 passed the Senate on | ||
April 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1702 passed the House on | ||
May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 116, Nays 27, three | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |