By Staples H.B. No. 3355 76R13532 DAK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the responsibility for transporting certain juvenile 1-3 offenders. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.026(b), Family Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) If the juvenile detention facility is located outside 1-8 the county in which the child is taken into custody, it shall be 1-9 the duty of the law enforcement officer who has taken the child 1-10 into custody or, if authorized by the commissioners court of the 1-11 county, the sheriff of that county to transport the child to the 1-12 appropriate juvenile detention facility unless the child is: 1-13 (1) detained in a secure detention facility under 1-14 Section 51.12(i); or 1-15 (2) released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of 1-16 the child. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a child taken into 1-18 custody on or after the effective date of this Act. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.