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. 1-32 * * * * *