By Gray H.B. No. 292 74R1842 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the power of a county to provide for the public safety 1-3 by enacting a juvenile curfew; providing a penalty. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 351.903 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 351.903. JUVENILE CURFEW ORDER. (a) To provide for 1-8 the public safety, the commissioners court of a county by order may 1-9 adopt a curfew applying to the unincorporated area of a county to 1-10 regulate the movements or actions of persons under the age of 17. 1-11 (b) This authority includes the authority to: 1-12 (1) establish the hours of the curfew, including 1-13 different hours for different days of the week; 1-14 (2) apply different curfew hours to different age 1-15 groups of juveniles; 1-16 (3) describe the kinds of conduct subject to the 1-17 curfew; 1-18 (4) determine the locations to which the curfew 1-19 applies; 1-20 (5) determine which persons incur liability if a 1-21 violation of the curfew occurs; 1-22 (6) prescribe procedures a police officer or other 1-23 person must follow in enforcing the curfew; and 1-24 (7) establish exemptions from the curfew. 2-1 (c) A person commits an offense if the person violates a 2-2 restriction or prohibition imposed by an order adopted under this 2-3 section. An offense under this subsection is a Class C 2-4 misdemeanor. 2-5 SECTION 2. 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, 2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.