By Hilbert H.B. No. 1186 74R3400 DD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to detaining or committing certain delinquent children to 1-3 correctional facilities where adults are detained or committed. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 51.12(a), Family Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (a) Except after transfer to criminal court for prosecution 1-8 under Section 54.02 of this code, a child shall not be detained in 1-9 or committed to a compartment of a jail or lockup in which adults 1-10 arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crime are detained or 1-11 committed, nor be permitted contact with such persons. This 1-12 subsection does not apply to a child who is at least 18 years of 1-13 age and who has been taken into custody after having: 1-14 (1) escaped from a juvenile facility; or 1-15 (2) violated a condition of release. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.