Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 3 Page: 2,928
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70th LEGISLATURE - REGULAR SESSION
section in the county treasury to the credit of a special fund that may be used only
for juvenile probation or community-based juvenile corrections services or facilities
in which a juvenile may be required to live while under court supervision. If the
court does not adopt a schedule and rules for waiver, a fee for informal adjustment
services may not be imposed.
SECTION 23. Chapter 54, Family Code, as amended, is amended by adding
Section 54.0411 to read as follows:
Sec. 54.0411. JUVENILE PROBATION DIVERSION FUND. (a) If a
disposition hearing is held under Section 54.04 of this code, the juvenile court, after
giving the child, parent, or other person responsible for the child's support a
reasonable opportunity to be heard, shall order the child, parent, or other person,
if financially able to do so, to pay a fee as costs of court of $20.
(b) Orders for the payment of fees under this section may be enforced as
provided by Section 54.07 of this code.
(c) An officer collecting costs under this section shall keep separate records
of the funds collected as costs under this section and shall deposit the funds in the
county treasury.
(d) Each officer collecting court costs under this section shall file the reports
required under Article 103.005, Code of Criminal Procedure. If no funds due as
costs under this section have been collected in any quarter, the report required for
each quarter shall be filed in the regular manner, and the report must state that no
funds due under this section were collected.
(e) The custodian of the county treasury may deposit the funds collected
under this section in interest-bearing accounts. The custodian shall keep records of
the amount of funds on deposit collected under this section and not later than the
last day of the month following each calendar quarter shall send to the comptroller
of public accounts the funds collected under this section during the preceding
quarter. The county may retain 10 percent of the funds as a service fee and may
retain the interest accrued on the funds.
(f) Funds collected are subject to audit by the comptroller and funds
expended are subject to audit by the State Auditor.
(g) The comptroller shall deposit the funds in a special fund to be known as
the juvenile probation diversion fund.
(h) The legislature shall determine and appropriate the necessary amount
from the juvenile probation diversion fund to the Texas Juvenile Probation
Commission for the purchase of services the commission considers necessary for the
diversion of any juvenile who is at risk of commitment to the Texas Youth
Commission. The Texas Juvenile Probation Commission shall develop guidelines
for the use of the fund. The commission may notpurchase the services if a person
responsible for the child's support or a local juvenile probation department is
financially able to provide the services.
SECTION 24. Section 54.06, Family Code, as amended, is amended to read
as follows:
(a) At any stage of the proceeding, when [When] a child has been placed [en
prohatien] outside his home, the juvenile court, after giving the parent or other
person responsible for the child's support a reasonable opportunity to be heard, shall
[may] order the parent or other person to pay in a manner directed by the court a
reasonable sum for the support in whole or in part of the child or the court shall
waive the payment by order. The court shall order that the payment for support be
made to the local juvenile probation department to be used only for residential care
and other support for the child unless the child has been committed to the Texas
Youth Commission, in which case the court shall order that the payment be made
to the Texas Youth Commission for deposit to the General Revenue Fund.2928
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 3, legislative document, 1987; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125389/m1/44/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.