H.B. No. 223
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to missing children.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 79.001(1), (2), and (4), Human Resources
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6              (1)  "Child" means a person under 18 <17> years of age.
    1-7              (2)  "Missing person" means a person 18 <17> years old
    1-8  or older whose disappearance is possibly not voluntary.
    1-9              (4)  "Missing child" or "missing person" also includes
   1-10  a person of any age who is missing and:
   1-11                    (A)  is under proven physical or mental
   1-12  disability or is senile, and because of one or more of these
   1-13  conditions is subject to immediate danger or is a danger to others;
   1-14                    (B)  is in the company of another person or is in
   1-15  a situation the <under> circumstances of which indicate
   1-16  <indicating> that the missing child's or missing person's safety is
   1-17  in doubt; or
   1-18                    (C)  is unemancipated as defined by the law of
   1-19  this state.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-21  only to an individual for whom a missing child or missing person
   1-22  report, as that term is used by Chapter 79, Human Resources Code,
   1-23  is made on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-24        (b)  An individual for whom a missing child or missing person
    2-1  report is made before the effective date of this Act is covered by
    2-2  the law in effect when the report was made, and the former law is
    2-3  continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.