By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1104 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the escape of a child while an appeal is pending. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 56. Section 56.03, Texas Family Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 56.03 to read as follows: 1-5 Section 56.03. ESCAPE OF A CHILD. When any escape from 1-6 custody by the child occurs while said child has an appeal pending, 1-7 the Texas Youth Commission or any Juvenile Detention Facility where 1-8 the child was in custody shall immediately report the fact under 1-9 oath to the district or county attorney of the county in which the 1-10 judgment of adjudication or transfer was had. Such report shall be 1-11 sufficient evidence for the fact of such escape which shall 1-12 authorize dismissal of the child's pending appeal. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.