By Staples                                            H.B. No. 3355
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                                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.  Sections 52.026(b) and (c), Family Code, are
 1-6     amended to 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 sheriff of that county to transport the child to
1-10     the appropriate juvenile detention facility unless the child is:]
1-11                 [(1)  detained in a secure detention facility under
1-12     Section 51.12(i); or]
1-13                 [(2)  released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of
1-14     the child.]
1-15           [(c)]  On adoption of an order by the juvenile board and
1-16     approval of the juvenile board's order by record vote of the
1-17     commissioners court, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the
1-18     county in which the child is taken into custody to transport the
1-19     child to and from all scheduled juvenile court proceedings and
1-20     appearances and other activities ordered by the juvenile court.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a child taken into
1-22     custody on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.