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.