73R5806 DAK-F
          By Place                                              H.B. No. 1493
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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.