Bill Text: TX HB1439 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of an educational publication for judicial guidance on cases involving a child who may be eligible for special immigrant juvenile status.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-28 - No action taken in committee [HB1439 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1439-Introduced.html
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| By: Hernandez | H.B. No. 1439 | |
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| relating to the creation of an educational publication for judicial | ||
| guidance on cases involving a child who may be eligible for special | ||
| immigrant juvenile status. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 22.020 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.020. EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATION FOR JUDICIAL GUIDANCE | ||
| RELATED TO SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILE STATUS. (a) The Permanent | ||
| Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families established by | ||
| the supreme court shall develop a comprehensive, educational | ||
| publication to provide judicial guidance in determining a court's | ||
| jurisdiction and presiding over a case that involves a child who may | ||
| be eligible for special immigrant juvenile status, as defined by 8 | ||
| U.S.C. Section 1101, and in making findings and issuing orders to | ||
| assist in determining the child's eligibility for that status. | ||
| (b) The publication must: | ||
| (1) include information about: | ||
| (A) federal law relating to special immigrant | ||
| juvenile status; | ||
| (B) existing jurisdiction of courts in this state | ||
| over cases involving a child who may be eligible for special | ||
| immigrant juvenile status; | ||
| (C) definitions of abuse, neglect, and | ||
| abandonment in Texas law; and | ||
| (D) findings necessary for a child to be granted | ||
| special immigrant juvenile status; | ||
| (2) be compiled into a single document; and | ||
| (3) be made available in hard copy and electronic | ||
| formats. | ||
| (c) The commission shall distribute the publication: | ||
| (1) electronically to each court in this state with | ||
| jurisdiction over juvenile cases; | ||
| (2) in hard copy format at judicial conferences and | ||
| meetings; and | ||
| (3) in hard copy format on request. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, | ||
| Youth and Families shall develop and distribute to each court in | ||
| this state with jurisdiction over juvenile cases the educational | ||
| publication required by Section 22.020, Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, not later than September 1, 2016. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
