Bill Text: TX HB3741 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to jurisdiction over certain child protection and juvenile matters involving juvenile offenders.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-03 - Left pending in committee [HB3741 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3741-Introduced.html
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| By: Murr | H.B. No. 3741 | |
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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 the 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. | ||
