Bill Text: TX SB1887 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to jurisdiction over certain child protection and juvenile matters involving juvenile offenders.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1887 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1887-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to jurisdiction over certain child protection and juvenile matters involving juvenile offenders.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB1887 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1887-Engrossed.html
By: Huffman, Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1887 |
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relating to jurisdiction over certain child protection and juvenile | ||
matters involving juvenile offenders. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.04, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) This title covers the proceedings in all cases involving | ||
the delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision | ||
engaged in by a person who was a child within the meaning of this | ||
title at the time the person engaged in the conduct, and, except as | ||
provided by Subsection (h) or Section 51.0414, the juvenile court | ||
has exclusive original jurisdiction over proceedings under this | ||
title. | ||
(h) A juvenile court judge may refer any aspect of a suit | ||
instituted under Subtitle E, Title 5, to an associate judge | ||
appointed under Subchapter C, Chapter 201, who serves in the | ||
county, with the associate judge's consent. The scope of an | ||
associate judge's authority over a suit referred under this | ||
subsection is subject to any limitations placed by the juvenile | ||
court judge in the order of referral. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 51, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
Section 51.0414 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.0414. DISCRETIONARY TRANSFER FOR ADJUDICATION OR | ||
DISPOSITION. The juvenile court may transfer a child's case, | ||
including transcripts of records and documents for the case, to a | ||
court located in a county that is exercising jurisdiction over the | ||
child under Chapter 263 or 264 for adjudication of the case under | ||
Section 54.03 or disposition of the case under Section 54.04. | ||
Consent of the court to which the case is transferred under this | ||
section is not required. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 201.204, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) An associate judge may hear and render an order in a suit | ||
referred to the associate judge by a juvenile court under Section | ||
51.04, subject to the limitations placed on the associate judge's | ||
authority in the order of referral. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the conduct occurred, and | ||
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For the | ||
purposes of this section, conduct occurred before the effective | ||
date of this Act if any element of the conduct occurred before that | ||
date. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |