By: Cain, Neave Criado, Gates, Plesa, H.B. No. 2959
      Collier, et al.
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to providing children committed to the Texas Juvenile
  Justice Department with certain documents on discharge or release.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 245.0536(b), Human Resources Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall submit a request under Subsection
  (a)(2) on intake of the child [as soon as is practicable] to enable
  the department to receive the personal identification certificate
  before the department releases or discharges the child and to
  provide the child with the personal identification certificate when
  the department releases or discharges the child.
         SECTION 2.  Section 245.0537(b), Human Resources Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The department shall submit a request under Subsection
  (a)(2) on intake of the child [as soon as is practicable] to enable
  the department to receive the applicable document before the
  department releases or discharges the child and to provide the
  child with the applicable document when the department releases or
  discharges the child.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.