1-1     By:  Staples (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)                H.B. No. 3355
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the responsibility for transporting certain juvenile
 1-9     offenders.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 52.026(b), Family Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (b)  If the juvenile detention facility is located outside
1-14     the county in which the child is taken into custody, it shall be
1-15     the duty of the law enforcement officer who has taken the child
1-16     into custody or, if authorized by the commissioners court of the
1-17     county, the sheriff of that county to transport the child to the
1-18     appropriate juvenile detention facility unless the child is:
1-19                 (1)  detained in a secure detention facility under
1-20     Section 51.12(i); or
1-21                 (2)  released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of
1-22     the child.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a child taken into
1-24     custody on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.
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