By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 187
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the release of certain information relating to a
 1-2     juvenile offender suspected of fleeing after committing certain
 1-3     violent crimes.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by adding
 1-6     Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The department may, if necessary to protect the welfare
 1-8     of the community, disseminate to the public the information listed
 1-9     under Subsection (c) relating to a juvenile offender when notified
1-10     by a law enforcement agency of this state that the law enforcement
1-11     agency has been issued a directive to apprehend the offender or an
1-12     arrest warrant for the offender or that the law enforcement agency
1-13     is otherwise authorized to arrest the offender and that the
1-14     offender is suspected of having:
1-15                 (1)  committed a felony offense under the following
1-16     provisions of the Penal Code:
1-17                       (A)  Title 5;
1-18                       (B)  Section 29.02; or
1-19                       (C)  Section 29.03; and
1-20                 (2)  fled from arrest or apprehension for commission of
1-21     the offense.
1-22           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           (b)  This Act applies only to conduct that occurs on or after
1-24     the effective date of this Act.  Conduct violating the penal law of
 2-1     this state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act if
 2-2     every element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
 2-3           (c)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
 2-4     Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
 2-5     occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
 2-6           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-9     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.