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. 1-49 * * * * *