Bill Text: TX SB61 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to juvenile case managers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB61 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB61-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 61

AN ACT
relating to juvenile case managers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Article 45.056, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
Art. 45.056. [AUTHORITY TO EMPLOY] JUVENILE CASE MANAGERS[;
REIMBURSEMENT].
SECTION 2. Article 45.056, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (f), (g),
and (h) to read as follows:
(d) Pursuant to Article 102.0174, the court or governing
body may pay the salary and benefits of a juvenile case manager and
the costs of training, travel, office supplies, and other necessary
expenses relating to the position of the juvenile case manager from
the juvenile case manager fund.
(f) The governing body of the employing governmental entity
under Subsection (a) shall adopt reasonable rules for juvenile case
managers that provide:
(1) a code of ethics, and for the enforcement of the
code of ethics;
(2) appropriate educational preservice and in-service
training standards for juvenile case managers; and
(3) training in:
(A) the role of the juvenile case manager;
(B) case planning and management;
(C) applicable procedural and substantive law;
(D) courtroom proceedings and presentation;
(E) services to at-risk youth under Subchapter D,
Chapter 264, Family Code;
(F) local programs and services for juveniles and
methods by which juveniles may access those programs and services;
and
(G) detecting and preventing abuse,
exploitation, and neglect of juveniles.
(g) The employing court or governmental entity under this
article shall implement the rules adopted under Subsection (f).
(h) The commissioners court or governing body of the
municipality that administers a juvenile case manager fund under
Article 102.0174 shall require periodic review of juvenile case
managers to ensure the implementation of the rules adopted under
Subsection (f).
SECTION 3. Subsection (g), Article 102.0174, Code of
Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(g) A fund created under this section may be used only to
finance the salary, [and] benefits, training, travel expenses,
office supplies, and other necessary expenses relating to the
position of a juvenile case manager employed under Article 45.056.
The fund may not be used to supplement the income of an employee
whose primary role is not that of a juvenile case manager.
SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2011, the governing
body of a governmental entity that employs a juvenile case manager
under Article 45.056, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by
this Act, shall adopt the rules required by that article.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 61 passed the Senate on
March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2011, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 61 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148,
Nays 0, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor