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         By Allen                                              H.B. No. 3250
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3250:
         By Allen                                          C.S.H.B. No. 3250
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the establishment of an infant care and parenting
 1-3     program in the Texas Youth Commission.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 61, Human Resources Code,
 1-6     is amended by adding Section 61.0762 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 61.0762.  INFANT CARE AND PARENTING PROGRAM.  (a)  The
 1-8     commission may establish an infant care and parenting program for
 1-9     children who are parents.
1-10           (b)  The commission may permit a child who is the mother of
1-11     an infant younger than 36 months of age to have possession of her
1-12     infant in a residential program that has an infant care and
1-13     parenting program until the infant reaches the age of 36 months or
1-14     the mother is released under supervision if:
1-15                 (1)  the infant's father or another relative or
1-16     guardian of the infant agrees before the infant is placed with the
1-17     infant's mother to assume possession of the infant immediately on
1-18     notice by the commission;
1-19                 (2)  the infant's parents and any other person having a
1-20     duty to support acknowledge that by permitting the mother to have
1-21     possession of the infant while the mother is confined in a
1-22     residential facility, the commission does not assume responsibility
1-23     for the infant's care beyond the care that is ordinarily due the
1-24     infant's mother and the reasonable accommodations that are
 2-1     necessary for the mother's care of the infant;
 2-2                 (3)  the infant's parents and any other person having a
 2-3     duty of support agree to indemnify and hold the commission harmless
 2-4     for any claims that may be made against the commission for the
 2-5     infant's support, including medical support; and
 2-6                 (4)  the commission determines that the placement is in
 2-7     the best interest of both the child and her infant.
 2-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.