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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the criteria for determining whether a person is a |
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missing child or a missing person. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Article 63.001(4), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
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is amended to read as follows: |
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(4) "Missing child" or "missing person" also includes |
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a person of any age who is missing and: |
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(A) is under proven physical or mental disability |
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or is senile, and because of one or more of these conditions is |
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subject to immediate danger or is a danger to others; |
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(B) is in the company of another person or is in a |
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situation the circumstances of which indicate that the missing |
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child's or missing person's safety is in doubt; [or] |
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(C) is unemancipated as defined by the law of |
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this state; or |
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(D) whose whereabouts or safety cannot be |
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confirmed or ascertained by the reporter or by a law enforcement |
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agency after reasonable inquiries or investigation. |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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to the report of a missing child or a missing person made under |
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Chapter 63, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act, on |
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or after the effective date of this Act. The report of a missing |
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child or a missing person made before the effective date of this Act |
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is governed by the law in effect when the report was made, and the |
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former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |