H.B. No. 1493
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the transfer of persons serving determinate sentences
1-3 from the Texas Youth Commission to the institutional division of
1-4 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 51.13(c), Family Code, is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 (c) A child may not be committed or transferred to a penal
1-9 institution or other facility used primarily for the execution of
1-10 sentences of persons convicted of crime, except:
1-11 (1) for temporary detention in a jail or lockup
1-12 pending juvenile court hearing or disposition under conditions
1-13 meeting the requirements of Section 51.12 of this code;
1-14 (2) after transfer for prosecution in criminal court
1-15 under Section 54.02 of this code; or
1-16 (3) <on or after the 18th birthday of the child,>
1-17 after transfer from the Texas Youth Commission under Section
1-18 61.084, Human Resources Code.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 499.053(a), Government Code, is amended
1-20 to read as follows:
1-21 (a) The institutional division shall accept persons <18
1-22 years old or older> transferred to the division from the Texas
1-23 Youth Commission under Section 61.084, Human Resources Code.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.