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5 Document(s) [ Subject: Child crimes ]
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Charge 5 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 78th Legislature : charge five / Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. | |
| Subjects: | Child crimes | Inmate health | Mental health services | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 c868 5 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [18 pages File size: 3,482 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Monitor efforts to increase the availability and effectiveness of state and local mental health services for adult and juvenile offenders, and recommend improvements where applicable. | |
| Committee: | Senate Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Senate Committee on Jurisprudence interim report : report to the 78th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Child crimes | Court costs and fees | Judges | Judicial districts | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Progressive sanctions (Criminal justice) | Racial profiling | Redistricting | Trial courts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 j979 | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [89 pages File size: 1,687 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the effectiveness of the progressive sanction guidelines for juvenile offenders. Determine whether the guidelines established by HB 327, 74th R.S., are bringing consistency, uniformity, and predictability to juvenile dispositions in an effort to facilitate juvenile justice planning and improve the allocation of resources within the juvenile justice system. The Committee shall make recommendations for improving the effectiveness of juveniles sanctions in protecting public safety and rehabilitating offenders. | |
| 2. | Study the judicial system's revenue structure and make recommendations for improving the collection, dispersal, and accounting of court costs, fees, and fines by state and local entities. This study should include a review of all court costs and fees (except those related to the Crime Victims' Compensation Fund) to ensure that they are necessary and are adequately fulfilling their intended purpose. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations for the reapportionment of judicial districts pursuant to Article V, Section 7a, Texas Constitution. | |
| 4. | Study and make recommendations for improving the structure of the state's trial court system, including, but not limited to: improving the quality, cost-effectiveness, and uniformity of the visiting judge program; devising objective criteria to be used by the Legislature to determine when and where additional trial courts should be created; and clarifying jurisdictional conflicts between courts. | |
| 5. | Monitor the implementation of SB 1074, 77th R.S., relating to the prevention of racial profiling by certain peace officers. | |
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Juvenile justice | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, 77th Legislature : charge four. | |
| Subjects: | Child crimes | Juvenile justice system | Mental health services | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.76 c868 4 | |
| Session: | 76th R.S. (1999) | |
| Online version: | View report [57 pages File size: 2,050 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Review the need for legal procedures and programs for children under the age of 10 who commit violent crimes so that they may receive necessary treatment and sanctions as part of the juvenile justice system (except for placement in the Texas Youth Commission) or a newly-created separate system. The Committee shall consider whether a system, similar to the adult certification process for certain juvenile offenders, should be established that would certify a person under 10 years of age into the juvenile justice system. | |
| Committee: | House Criminal Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 1998 : a report to the House of Representatives, 76th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Child crimes | Civil commitment of sex offenders | Court costs and fees | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | Good-conduct time | Indigent criminal defense | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Pardons and Paroles, Texas Board of | Parole | Sex offenders | Sexual assault | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 c868h | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View report [186 pages File size: 7,610 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review and assess the consistency of all statutes that pertain to the age of criminal responsibility. | |
| 2. | Study the issues relating to the civil commitment of violent offenders after their criminal sentence is served. Review civil commitment laws enacted in other states. | |
| 3. | Study the cost of legal services for the indigent in the Texas criminal justice system. | |
| 4. | Assess the effect that state-imposed municipal and county court fees have on a city, municipality, or county's revenue over time, and how it affects the violator's ability to pay. | |
| 5. | Examine the policies of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles regarding parole revocations, and to examine the calculation of current time, the forfeiture of good time, and program options for all felony cases, with special attention to substance abuse initiatives. | |
| Committee: | Joint Family Code, Interim | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | A comprehensive review of the Texas Family Code. | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Boot camps | Child crimes | Child custody | Child support | Divorce | Families | Gender discrimination | Juvenile justice system | Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas | Marriage | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Statutory revision | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.73 f21 | |
| Session: | 73rd R.S. (1993) | |
| Online version: | View report [241 pages File size: 10,502 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study and make recommendations regarding the clarity and consistency of terminology used throughout the Family Code. | |
| 2. | Study the usefulness and necessity of all major provisions of the Family Code, and, if any are obsolete or in need of amendment, recommend deletions or appropriate amendments. | |
| 3. | Study and make recommendations regarding property division from divorce, as well as child support guidelines in Title 2 | |
| 4. | Study and make recommendations regarding juvenile justice provisions contained in Title 3. | |
| 5. | Maker recommendations regarding recodification of the Code, if needed. | |
| 6. | Make recommendations regarding any additions or other changes that the Committee determined should be made to the Texas Family Code. | |
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