Texas Family Code Title 3, Chapter 54 - Judicial Proceedings

• Texas Section 54.01 - Detention Hearing
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (p), if the child is not released under Section 53.02, a detention hearing without a jury shall be held...
• Texas Section 54.011 - Detention Hearings For Status Offenders And Nonoffenders; Penalty
  (a) The detention hearing for a status offender or nonoffender who has not been released administratively under Section 53.02 shall be held before the 24th...
• Texas Section 54.012 - Interactive Video Recording Of Detention Hearing
  (a) A detention hearing under Section 54.01 may be held using interactive video equipment if: (1) the child and the child's attorney agree to the...
• Texas Section 54.02 - Waiver Of Jurisdiction And Discretionary Transfer To Criminal Court
  (a) The juvenile court may waive its exclusive original jurisdiction and transfer a child to the appropriate district court or criminal district court for criminal...
• Texas Section 54.03 - Adjudication Hearing
  (a) A child may be found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision only after an adjudication hearing conducted...
• Texas Section 54.031 - Hearsay Statement Of Certain Abuse Victims
  (a) This section applies to a hearing under this title in which a child is alleged to be a delinquent child on the basis of...
• Texas Section 54.032 - Deferral Of Adjudication And Dismissal Of Certain Cases On Completion Of Teen Court Program
  (a) A juvenile court may defer adjudication proceedings under Section 54.03 for not more than 180 days if the child: (1) is alleged to have...
• Texas Section 54.0325 - Deferral Of Adjudication And Dismissal Of Certain Cases On Completion Of Teen Dating Violence Court Program
  (a) In this section: (1) "Dating violence" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.0021. (2) "Family violence" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.004. (3)...
• Texas Section 54.0326 - Deferral Of Adjudication And Dismissal Of Certain Cases On Completion Of Trafficked Persons Program
  (a) This section applies to a juvenile court or to an alternative juvenile court exercising simultaneous jurisdiction over proceedings under this title and Subtitle E,...
• Texas Section 54.033 - Sexually Transmitted Disease, Aids, And Hiv Testing
  (a) A child found at the conclusion of an adjudication hearing under Section 54.03 of this code to have engaged in delinquent conduct that included...
• Texas Section 54.034 - Limited Right To Appeal: Warning
  Before the court may accept a child's plea or stipulation of evidence in a proceeding held under this title, the court shall inform the child...
• Texas Section 54.04 - Disposition Hearing
  (a) The disposition hearing shall be separate, distinct, and subsequent to the adjudication hearing. There is no right to a jury at the disposition hearing...
• Texas Section 54.0401 - Community-based Programs
  (a) This section applies only to a county that has a population of at least 335,000. (b) A juvenile court of a county to which...
• Texas Section 54.04011 - Commitment To Post-adjudication Secure Correctional Facility
  (a) In this section, "post-adjudication secure correctional facility" means a facility operated by or under contract with a juvenile board or local juvenile probation department...
• Texas Section 54.04012 - Trafficked Persons Program
  (a) This section applies to a juvenile court or to an alternative juvenile court exercising simultaneous jurisdiction over proceedings under this title and Subtitle E,...
• Texas Section 54.04013 - Special Commitment To Texas Juvenile Justice Department
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, after a disposition hearing held in accordance with Section 54.04, the juvenile court may commit a child who...
• Texas Section 54.0404 - Electronic Transmission Of Certain Visual Material Depicting Minor: Educational Programs
  (a) If a child is found to have engaged in conduct indicating a need for supervision described by Section 51.03(b)(7), the juvenile court may enter...
• Texas Section 54.0405 - Child Placed On Probation For Conduct Constituting Sexual Offense
  (a) If a court or jury makes a disposition under Section 54.04 in which a child described by Subsection (b) is placed on probation, the...
• Texas Section 54.0406 - Child Placed On Probation For Conduct Involving A Handgun
  (a) If a court or jury places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) for conduct that violates a penal law that includes as an...
• Texas Section 54.0407 - Cruelty To Animals: Counseling Required
  If a child is found to have engaged in delinquent conduct constituting an offense under Section 42.09 or 42.092, Penal Code, the juvenile court shall...
• Texas Section 54.0408 - Referral Of Child Exiting Probation To Mental Health Or Mental Retardation Authority
  A juvenile probation officer shall refer a child who has been determined to have a mental illness or mental retardation to an appropriate local mental...
• Texas Section 54.0409 - Dna Sample Required On Certain Felony Adjudications
  Sec. 54.0409. DNA SAMPLE REQUIRED ON CERTAIN FELONY ADJUDICATIONS. Text of subsection effective until January 01, 2017 (a) This section applies only to conduct constituting...
• Texas Section 54.041 - Orders Affecting Parents And Others
  (a) When a child has been found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision and the juvenile court has...
• Texas Section 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...
• Texas Section 54.042 - License Suspension
  (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, shall: (1) order the Department of Public Safety to suspend a child's driver's license...
• Texas Section 54.043 - Monitoring School Attendance
  If the court places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) and requires as a condition of probation that the child attend school, the probation...
• Texas Section 54.044 - Community Service
  (a) If the court places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d), the court shall require as a condition of probation that the child work...
• Texas Section 54.045 - Admission Of Unadjudicated Conduct
  (a) During a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, a child may: (1) admit having engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision...
• Texas Section 54.046 - Conditions Of Probation For Damaging Property With Graffiti
  (a) If a juvenile court places on probation under Section 54.04(d) a child adjudicated as having engaged in conduct in violation of Section 28.08, Penal...
• Texas Section 54.0461 - Payment Of Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Fees
  (a) If a child is adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct that violates Section 28.08, Penal Code, the juvenile court shall order the child,...
• Texas Section 54.0462 - Payment Of Fees For Offenses Requiring Dna Testing
  (a) If a child is adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct that constitutes the commission of a felony and the provision of a DNA...
• Texas Section 54.047 - Alcohol Or Drug Related Offense
  (a) If the court or jury finds at an adjudication hearing for a child that the child engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a...
• Texas Section 54.048 - Restitution
  (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, may order restitution to be made by the child and the child's parents. (b)...
• Texas Section 54.0481 - Restitution For Damaging Property With Graffiti
  (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04 regarding a child who has been adjudicated to have engaged in delinquent conduct that...
• Texas Section 54.0482 - Treatment Of Restitution Payments
  (a) A juvenile probation department that receives a payment to a victim as the result of a juvenile court order for restitution shall immediately: (1)...
• Texas Section 54.049 - Conditions Of Probation For Desecrating A Cemetery Or Abusing A Corpse
  (a) If a juvenile court places on probation under Section 54.04(d) a child adjudicated to have engaged in conduct in violation of Section 28.03(f), Penal...
• Texas Section 54.0491 - Gang-related Conduct
  (a) In this section: (1) "Criminal street gang" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.01, Penal Code. (2) "Gang-related conduct" means conduct that violates a...
• Texas Section 54.05 - Hearing To Modify Disposition
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), any disposition, except a commitment to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, may be modified by the juvenile court...
• Texas Section 54.051 - Transfer Of Determinate Sentence Probation To Appropriate District Court
  (a) On motion of the state concerning a child who is placed on probation under Section 54.04(q) for a period, including any extension ordered under...
• Texas Section 54.052 - Credit For Time Spent In Detention Facility For Child With Determinate Sentence
  (a) This section applies only to a child who is committed to: (1) the Texas Juvenile Justice Department under a determinate sentence under Section 54.04(d)(3)...
• Texas Section 54.06 - Judgments For Support
  (a) At any stage of the proceeding, when a child has been placed outside the child's home, the juvenile court, after giving the parent or...
• Texas Section 54.061 - Payment Of Probation Fees
  (a) If a child is placed on probation under Section 54.04(d)(1) of this code, the juvenile court, after giving the child, parent, or other person...
• Texas Section 54.07 - Enforcement Of Order
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or a juvenile court child support order, any order of the juvenile court may be enforced as provided...
• Texas Section 54.08 - Public Access To Court Hearings
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the court shall open hearings under this title to the public unless the court, for good cause shown,...
• Texas Section 54.09 - Recording Of Proceedings
  All judicial proceedings under this chapter except detention hearings shall be recorded by stenographic notes or by electronic, mechanical, or other appropriate means. Upon request...
• Texas Section 54.10 - Hearings Before Referee
  Sec. 54.10. HEARINGS BEFORE REFEREE. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a hearing under Section 54.03, 54.04, or 54.05, including a jury trial, a...
• Texas Section 54.11 - Release Or Transfer Hearing
  (a) On receipt of a referral under Section 244.014(a), Human Resources Code, for the transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice of a person...

Last modified: September 28, 2016