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) At the request of the juvenile probation department, it 1-17 shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county in which the child 1-18 is taken into custody to transport the child to and from all 1-19 scheduled juvenile court proceedings and appearances and other 1-20 activities ordered by the juvenile court. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.