1-1     By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 187
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     February 22, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; February 22, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                 By:  West
 1-7           Amend S.B. No. 187 in SECTION 1 of the bill, (Section 58.106,
 1-8     Family Code), page 1, introduced version), as follows:
 1-9           (1)  On line 27, between "state" and "that", insert "that the
1-10     law enforcement agency has been issued a directive to apprehend the
1-11     offender or an arrest warrant for the offender or the law
1-12     enforcement agency is otherwise authorized to arrest the offender
1-13     and".
1-14           (2)  On line 29, strike "an offense" and substitute "a felony
1-15     offense".
1-16                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17                                   AN ACT
1-18     relating to the release of certain information relating to a
1-19     juvenile offender suspected of fleeing after committing certain
1-20     violent crimes.
1-21           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-22           SECTION 1.  Section 58.106, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-23     Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-24           (d)  The department may, if necessary to protect the welfare
1-25     of the community, disseminate to the public the information listed
1-26     under Subsection (c) relating to a juvenile offender when notified
1-27     by a law enforcement agency of this state that the offender is
1-28     suspected of having:
1-29                 (1)  committed an offense under the following
1-30     provisions of the Penal Code:
1-31                       (A)  Title 5;
1-32                       (B)  Section 29.02; or
1-33                       (C)  Section 29.03; and
1-34                 (2)  fled from arrest or apprehension for commission of
1-35     the offense.
1-36           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-37           (b)  This Act applies only to conduct that occurs on or after
1-38     the effective date of this Act.  Conduct violating the penal law of
1-39     this state occurs on or after the effective date of this Act if
1-40     every element of the violation occurs on or after that date.
1-41           (c)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-42     Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-43     occurred, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-44           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-45     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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