Bill Text: TX HB3532 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to notification requirements for law enforcement agencies regarding a missing child with an intellectual disability or mental illness.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB3532 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3532-Engrossed.html
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| By: Sherman, Sr. | H.B. No. 3532 | |
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| relating to notification requirements for law enforcement agencies | ||
| regarding a missing child with an intellectual disability or mental | ||
| illness. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 63, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 63.0093 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 63.0093. NOTIFICATION REGARDING MISSING CHILD WITH | ||
| INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OR MENTAL ILLNESS. (a) In this article, | ||
| "intellectual disability" and "mental illness" have the meanings | ||
| assigned by Article 46B.001. | ||
| (b) As soon as practicable after a law enforcement agency | ||
| detains, arrests, or releases a missing child with an intellectual | ||
| disability or mental illness, the agency shall notify the missing | ||
| child's parent, managing conservator, or guardian regarding the | ||
| agency's detention, arrest, or release. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
