By:  Carriker                                          S.B. No. 588
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the designation of responsibility for the transporting
    1-2  of juvenile offenders.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 52, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Section 52.026 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 52.026.  RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRANSPORTING JUVENILE
    1-7  OFFENDERS.  (a)  It shall be the duty of the law enforcement
    1-8  officer who has taken a child into custody to transport the child
    1-9  to the appropriate juvenile detention facility if the child is not
   1-10  released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child.
   1-11        (b)  If the juvenile detention facility is located outside
   1-12  the county in which the child is taken into custody, it shall be
   1-13  the duty of the sheriff of that county to transport the child to
   1-14  the appropriate juvenile detention facility if the child is not
   1-15  released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child.
   1-16        (c)  On adoption of an order by the juvenile board and
   1-17  approval of the juvenile board's order by record vote of the
   1-18  commissioners court, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the
   1-19  county in which the child is taken into custody to transport the
   1-20  child to and from all scheduled juvenile court proceedings and
   1-21  appearances and other activities ordered by the juvenile court.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.