Texas Family Code Title 3, Chapter 59 - Progressive Sanctions Model

• Texas Section 59.001 - Purposes
  The purposes of the progressive sanctions model are to: (1) ensure that juvenile offenders face uniform and consistent consequences and punishments that correspond to the...
• Texas Section 59.002 - Sanction Level Assignment By Probation Department
  (a) The probation department may assign a sanction level of one to a child referred to the probation department under Section 53.012. (b) The probation...
• Texas Section 59.003 - Sanction Level Assignment Model
  (a) Subject to Subsection (e), after a child's first commission of delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision, the probation department or prosecuting...
• Texas Section 59.004 - Sanction Level One
  (a) For a child at sanction level one, the juvenile court or probation department may: (1) require counseling for the child regarding the child's conduct;...
• Texas Section 59.005 - Sanction Level Two
  (a) For a child at sanction level two, the juvenile court, the prosecuting attorney, or the probation department may, as provided by Section 53.03: (1)...
• Texas Section 59.006 - Sanction Level Three
  (a) For a child at sanction level three, the juvenile court may: (1) place the child on probation for not less than six months; (2)...
• Texas Section 59.007 - Sanction Level Four
  (a) For a child at sanction level four, the juvenile court may: (1) require the child to participate as a condition of probation for not...
• Texas Section 59.008 - Sanction Level Five
  (a) For a child at sanction level five, the juvenile court may: (1) as a condition of probation, place the child for not less than...
• Texas Section 59.009 - Sanction Level Six
  (a) For a child at sanction level six, the juvenile court may commit the child to the custody of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or...
• Texas Section 59.010 - Sanction Level Seven
  (a) For a child at sanction level seven, the juvenile court may certify and transfer the child under Section 54.02 or sentence the child to...
• Texas Section 59.011 - Duty Of Juvenile Board
  A juvenile board shall require the juvenile probation department to report progressive sanction data electronically to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in the format and...
• Texas Section 59.013 - Liability
  The Texas Juvenile Justice Department, a juvenile board, a court, a person appointed by a court, an attorney for the state, a peace officer, or...
• Texas Section 59.014 - Appeal
  A child may not bring an appeal or a postconviction writ of habeas corpus based on: (1) the failure or inability of any person to...
• Texas Section 59.015 - Waiver Of Sanctions On Parents Or Guardians
  On a finding by the juvenile court or probation department that a child's parents or guardians have made a reasonable good faith effort to prevent...

Last modified: September 28, 2016