Bill Text: TX HB2662 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the criteria for determining whether a child is a missing child.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB2662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2662-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2662 |
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relating to the criteria for determining whether a child is a | ||
missing child. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 63.001(3), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(3) "Missing child" means a child whose whereabouts | ||
are unknown to the child's legal custodian, the circumstances of | ||
whose absence indicate that: | ||
(A) the child did not voluntarily leave the care | ||
and control of the custodian, and the taking of the child was not | ||
authorized by law; | ||
(B) the child voluntarily left the care and | ||
control of the [ |
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consent and without intent to return; [ |
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(C) the child was taken or retained in violation | ||
of the terms of a court order for possession of or access to the | ||
child; or | ||
(D) the child was taken or retained without the | ||
permission of the custodian and with the effect of depriving the | ||
custodian of possession of or access to the child unless the taking | ||
or retention of the child was prompted by the commission or | ||
attempted commission of family violence, as defined by Section | ||
71.004, Family Code, against the child or the actor. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act in amending | ||
Article 63.001(3), Code of Criminal Procedure, applies only to the | ||
report of a missing child made under Chapter 63, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, as amended by this Act, on or after the effective date of | ||
this Act. The report of a missing child made before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the report was | ||
made, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2662 was passed by the House on April | ||
21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2662 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2662 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |