Bill Text: TX SB468 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice Department must accept custody of a person committed to the department and to the consequences for the failure of the department to accept custody of the person within that period.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-22 - Filed [SB468 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB468-Introduced.html
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| By: Sparks | S.B. No. 468 | |
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| relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice | ||
| Department must accept custody of a person committed to the | ||
| department and to the consequences for the failure of the | ||
| department to accept custody of the person within that period. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 54.04, Family Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsections (s) and (t) to read as follows: | ||
| (s) If the judge orders a disposition under this section | ||
| sentencing a person to commitment in the Texas Juvenile Justice | ||
| Department, the department shall accept custody of the person not | ||
| later than the 30th day after the date on which the judge signs the | ||
| disposition order committing the person to the department. | ||
| (t) If the Texas Juvenile Justice Department does not take | ||
| custody of a person within the period prescribed by Subsection (s), | ||
| the department shall compensate the county for the cost of | ||
| detention for each day that the person remains detained in a | ||
| facility operated by or under contract with the county following | ||
| the expiration of that period. The compensation must be equal to | ||
| the amount that would have been incurred by the department to detain | ||
| the person for that period. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 243.002, Human Resources Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Beginning on the 31st day after the date the child is | ||
| committed to the department, the department shall give credit | ||
| toward the minimum length of stay established for the child for time | ||
| spent in a pre-adjudication secure detention facility before the | ||
| child's transfer to the department. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2026. | ||
