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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3355 was passed by the House on May
         11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3355 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor