By Serna, Naishtat H.B. No. 1092
75R4841 MCK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of a missing child.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 79.001(3), Human Resources Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (3) "Missing child" means a child whose whereabouts
1-7 are unknown to the child's legal custodian, the circumstances of
1-8 whose absence indicate that:
1-9 (A) the child did not voluntarily leave the care
1-10 and control of the custodian, and the taking of the child was not
1-11 authorized by law; [or]
1-12 (B) the child voluntarily left the care and
1-13 control of his legal custodian without the custodian's consent and
1-14 without intent to return; or
1-15 (C) the child was taken or retained in violation
1-16 of the terms of a court order for possession of or access to the
1-17 child.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.