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House Bill 3385 |
House Author: Coleman et al. |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Hegar |
House Bill 3385 amends the Government Code to expand the conditions under which the Department of Public Safety is required to activate the statewide alert system for abducted children at the request of a local law enforcement agency to include if the agency believes that there has been an abduction of a child who is younger than 14 years of age and regardless of whether the child departed willingly with the other person, who has been taken from the care and custody and without the permission of the child's parent or legal guardian by another person who is more than three years older than the child and not related to the child by any degree of consanguinity or affinity. The bill further expands these conditions to include if the agency believes the abducted child is in immediate danger of becoming the victim of a sexual assault.