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.