Tex. Fam. Code § 51.031 · Chapter 51. GENERAL PROVISIONS
HABITUAL FELONY CONDUCT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Habitual felony conduct is conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony, other than a state jail felony, if:
(1) the child who engaged in the conduct has at least two previous final adjudications as having engaged in delinquent conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony;
(2) the second previous final adjudication is for conduct that occurred after the date the first previous adjudication became final; and
(3) all appeals relating to the previous adjudications considered under Subdivisions (1) and (2) have been exhausted.
(b) For purposes of this section, an adjudication is final if the child is placed on probation or committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
(c) An adjudication based on conduct that occurred before January 1, 1996, may not be considered in a disposition made under this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 262, Sec. 5, eff. Jan. 1, 1996. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1086, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 734 (H.B. 1549), Sec. 39, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.51.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Fam. Code § 51.031. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Family Code
- Tex. Fam. Code § 53.045OFFENSES ELIGIBLE FOR DETERMINATE SENTENCE.Printed as Section 51.031
- Tex. Fam. Code § 54.04DISPOSITION HEARING.Printed as Section 51.031
- Tex. Fam. Code § 54.05HEARING TO MODIFY DISPOSITION.Printed as Section 51.031
- Tex. Fam. Code § 58.256APPLICATION FOR SEALING RECORDS.Printed as Section 51.031
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