By: Bivins S.B. No. 1439 73R8770 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the placement in a state school of a juvenile offender 1-3 who is a person with mental retardation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 533.038, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) The department shall ensure that a person younger than 1-8 18 years of age whose degree of retardation is not profound or 1-9 severe and who has been found to have violated the laws of this 1-10 state is not placed in the same room in a state school with a 1-11 person whose degree of retardation is profound or severe. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.