By Munoz H.B. No. 75
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to increasing the age limit used for considering an
1-3 individual who is missing as a missing child.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 79.001(1) and (2), Human Resources Code,
1-6 are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Child" means a person under 18 <17> years of age.
1-8 (2) "Missing person" means a person 18 <17> years old
1-9 or older whose disappearance is possibly not voluntary.
1-10 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-11 only to an individual for whom a missing child or missing person
1-12 report, as that term is used by Chapter 79, Human Resources Code,
1-13 is made on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-14 (b) An individual for whom a missing child or missing person
1-15 report is made before the effective date of this Act is covered by
1-16 the law in effect when the report was made, and the former law is
1-17 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.