S.B. No. 588 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.