By: Brady H.B. No. 2544 73R6770 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the responsibility of parents for the conduct of their 1-3 children. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENT FOR CONDUCT OF CHILD. 1-6 (a) A parent is not liable, under either civil or criminal law, 1-7 for the conduct of the parent's child if the child voluntarily 1-8 leaves the parent's home against the express desire of the parent 1-9 and the child expresses an intent not to return or has been absent 1-10 without the parent's consent for more than 24 hours. 1-11 (b) A parent is not liable, under either civil or criminal 1-12 law, for the truancy of the parent's child. 1-13 (c) A juvenile court may not order a parent to act or 1-14 refrain from doing an act because of the act or omission of the 1-15 parent's child without a finding of culpable behavior on the part 1-16 of the parent. 1-17 SECTION 2. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-18 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.