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Committee:	Senate Gangs and Juvenile Justice, Interim
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Thinking outside the box.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child Protective Services | Crime prevention | Gangs | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice alternative education programs | Juvenile justice system | Progressive sanctions (Criminal justice) | Protective and Regulatory Services, Texas Department of | Runaway children | School safety | Services to Runaways and At-Risk Youth Program | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 g154
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [215 pages  File size: 11,733 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study and make recommendations to address the increasing gang problem in Texas, including consideration of: collaboration between law enforcement, education officials, and state and local juvenile justice agencies; prevention and intervention efforts; needs of prosecutors and law enforcement agencies; and criminal information systems.
2.	Study the need, if any, for additional juvenile court masters to assist courts with juvenile jurisdiction in providing speedy and effective justice for juvenile offenders and their victims. Identify jurisdictions most significantly impacted by juvenile justice caseloads. If necessary, make recommendations for the number of any such masters and the fiscal implications with potential funding sources.
3.	Monitor the implementation of HB 1550, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding progressive sanctions. Study the impact of progressive sanctions on juvenile facilities and upon program needs to make recommendations, if any, for statutory or funding changes.
4.	Monitor the STARS (Services to Runaways and At-Risk Youth) program and community youth development grants to evaluate their effectiveness and continued implementation.
Committee:	Senate Gangs and Juvenile Justice, Interim
Title:	Interim report - Summary
Library Catalog Title:	Thinking outside the box: summary of report.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child Protective Services | Crime prevention | Gangs | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice alternative education programs | Juvenile justice system | Progressive sanctions (Criminal justice) | Protective and Regulatory Services, Texas Department of | Runaway children | School safety | Services to Runaways and At-Risk Youth Program | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.75 g154s
Session:	75th R.S. (1997)
Online version:	View report [32 pages  File size: 1,425 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study and make recommendations to address the increasing gang problem in Texas, including consideration of: collaboration between law enforcement, education officials, and state and local juvenile justice agencies; prevention and intervention efforts; needs of prosecutors and law enforcement agencies; and criminal information systems.
2.	Study the need, if any, for additional juvenile court masters to assist courts with juvenile jurisdiction in providing speedy and effective justice for juvenile offenders and their victims. Identify jurisdictions most significantly impacted by juvenile justice caseloads. If necessary, make recommendations for the number of any such masters and the fiscal implications with potential funding sources.
3.	Monitor the implementation of HB 1550, 75th R.S., passed by the Legislature during the 1997 regular session, regarding progressive sanctions. Study the impact of progressive sanctions on juvenile facilities and upon program needs to make recommendations, if any, for statutory or funding changes.
4.	Monitor the STARS (Services to Runaways and At-Risk Youth) program and community youth development grants to evaluate their effectiveness and continued implementation.
Committee:	House Human Services
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 72nd Texas Legislature / Committee on Human Services.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child abuse | Child care | Child welfare | Elder abuse | Long-term care | Medical education | Nurses | Nursing education | Nursing homes | Nursing shortages | Obesity | Public health | Quality of care | Runaway children | Senior citizens |
Library Call Number:	L1836.71 h88
Session:	71st R.S. (1989)
Online version:	View report [310 pages  File size: 11,175 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 17.
2.	To study the extent of the problem of "throwaway children" that have been abandoned by their parents.
3.	To study feasibility of obesity prevention programs and the potential impact on reduction of indigent health care costs.
4.	To study the impact of the shortage of nursing personnel on health care delivery providers, including an examination of the regulation and permit requirements of nursing pools.
5.	To study the provision of day care services to families with low to moderate income, including the licensing and regulation of providers, the effects of federal welfare and day care reforms on day care services and the potential for expanded public-private partnerships in the area of day care.
6.	To study current public and private policies relating to child day care and to make recommendations to improve child day care services in Texas.
7.	To study the development of state policy and strategy for long term care, including a review of policies regarding penalties and sanctions for long term care providers, and to examine unlicensed and unregulated boarding terms.
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 71st Legislature, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child Protective Services | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 c437
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [64 pages  File size: 2,811 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Continue the examination of issues relating to the prevention, detection, investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse and pornography, and the prevention and management of the runaway problem among Texas youth. *
Supporting documents
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select
Title:	Interim report - Analysis of magazines
Library Catalog Title:	Content analysis of five leading pornographic magazines.
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 c437a
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Committee:	Senate Juvenile Justice System, Select
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Blueprint for prevention: the future of juvenile justice in Texas : the report of the Senate Select Committee on the Juvenile Justice System, the Senate of Texas.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child abuse | Child safety | Crime prevention | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas | Mental health services | Runaway children | School dropouts | Substance abuse | Teenage pregnancy | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.70 j988
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View report [68 pages  File size: 3,096 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	Study the state's juvenile justice system, emphasizing improved coordination between state and local service.
Supporting documents
Committee:	Senate Juvenile Justice System, Select
Title:	SR 572
Library Call Number:	SR 572
Session:	70th R.S. (1987)
Online version:	View document [4 pages  File size: 1,062 kb]
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select, Interim
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 70th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child abuse | Human Services, Texas Department of | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.69 c436
Session:	69th R.S. (1985)
Online version:	View report [62 pages  File size: 2,281 kb]
Charge:	This report should address the charge below.
1.	To continue the examination of issues relating to the prevention, detection, investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse and child pornography, and the prevention and management of the "runaway" problems among Texas youth.
Committee:	House Child Abuse and Pornography, House Joint
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report to the 69th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives / House Joint Study Committee on Child Abuse and Pornography.
Subjects:	Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 c436
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [122 pages  File size: 4,538 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To continue the study efforts of previous interim committees which have produced significant new laws aimed at protecting the children of this state.
2.	To make a thorough examination and recommendations for the legislature to deal with the growing problem of runaway children in Texas.
Committee:	House Criminal Jurisprudence
Title:	Interim report
Library Catalog Title:	To the Speaker and members, Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature: report / of the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, Texas House of Representatives, 68th Legislature.
Subjects:	Alternatives to incarceration | At-risk youth | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Parole | Penalties and sentences (Criminal justice) | Prison population | Prison reform | Probation | Recidivism | Runaway children | Statutory revision | Texas Code of Criminal Procedure | Truancy | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 j979cr
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [126 pages  File size: 3,747 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	To oversee the expenditure of the $3 million appropriations to the Texas Education Agency earmarked for a program designed to keep trouble students, truants, etc. enrolled in a classroom situation. To follow the guidelines set up by TEA for the participating school districts.
2.	To track the prison reform measures and see how they are being implemented, To determine the benefits derived from these measures, both in terms of recidivism and in terms of monetary savings.
3.	To study the need/benefits of raising the jurisdictional age of TYC to age 21 from age 18 for certain instances when keeping the child past the age of 18 would be beneficial to child and/or society.
4.	To look into alternative programs for youths who have committed status crimes, i.e.. truancy, running away from home, etc. To find alternatives to sentencing in TYC facilities for property offenders, as well as some minor non-property offenders.
5.	To devise a policy to keep the Texas Penal Code standardized, so that specific crimes do not have separate forms of sentencing.
6.	Study the need to reform the charging instrument in Texas; consider whether the state should be allowed to prosecute crimes other than capital offenses on the basis of an information rather than an indictment issued by a grand jury. *
7.	Make recommendations regarding the non-substantive changes to the probation and parole laws currently found in Articles 42.12 and 42.13 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. *
Committee:	Senate Health and Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Subcommittee report on interim studies / the Senate of Texas Subcommittee on Public Health.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Emergency medical services | Jail Standards, Texas Commission on | Mentally disabled persons | Municipal jails | Runaway children | Truancy |
Library Call Number:	L1836.68 h350
Session:	68th R.S. (1983)
Online version:	View report [54 pages  File size: 1,202 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	The passage of SB 906, 68th R.S., established a basis for mutual aid agreements between cities and counties on the provision of emergency medical services. The Subcommittee will followup on the continued effort to assure emergency medical services access to rural areas of the State, including the adequate provision of healthcare for the poor in rural areas and the accessibility and existence of adequate medical facilities and personnel.
2.	There has been reported a growing concern of the health standards for city jails and the Subcommittee will undertake an initial assessment of present health standards.
3.	The Subcommittee will monitor and assess referral services for parents of retarded children who need professional help.
4.	The Subcommittee will monitor and assess the implementation of SR 83, 68th R.S., to the Texas Department of Human Resources on demonstration projects in violence centers, and the monitoring of the implementation of Runaway Youth Demonstration Project.
Committee:	House Judiciary
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Report of the Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, State of Texas, 67th Legislature.
Subjects:	At-risk youth | Child custody | Child support | Courts | Historical records | Judicial Conduct, State Commission on | Juvenile crime | Juvenile justice system | Kidnapping | Open Meetings Act, Texas | Records management | Rules of evidence | Runaway children | Statutory revision | Truancy | Visitation rights |
Library Call Number:	L1836.67 j898
Session:	67th R.S. (1981)
Online version:	View report [124 pages  File size: 3,598 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Study Title II, Subtitle A and Title III of the Family Code, with a view toward recommendations modifying and expanding the statutes, including but not limited to: (a) parental kidnapping; (b) the disposition of juvenile cases (c) special issued in suits affecting the parent-child relationship; (d) mandatory requirements for court interpreters; and (e) grandparent visitation.
2.	Study the preservation of records of the courts of appeal and district courts.
3.	Study the rules of evidence for civil cases.
4.	Review the hearing and investigative processes of the Judicial Conduct Commission.
5.	Review the general rules of venue.
6.	Study the Open Meetings Act to determine if changes are necessary to make the Act more effective.

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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