Bill Text: TX SB572 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a general-law municipality or county to regulate residential child detention facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-23 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB572 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB572-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 572 | |
| (Kitzman) | ||
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| relating to the authority of a general-law municipality or county | ||
| to regulate residential child detention facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 250.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 250.014. REGULATION OF CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL CHILD | ||
| DETENTION FACILITIES. (a) In this section, "residential child | ||
| detention facility" means a private facility other than a facility | ||
| licensed by this state that operates under a contract with the | ||
| United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United | ||
| States Department of Health and Human Services, or another federal | ||
| agency to provide 24-hour custody or care to unaccompanied | ||
| immigrant or refugee children. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a residential child | ||
| detention facility. | ||
| (c) A general-law municipality or a county in the | ||
| unincorporated area of the county may: | ||
| (1) designate an area in which a residential child | ||
| detention facility may be located; and | ||
| (2) take other measures necessary to protect the | ||
| health and safety of the individuals residing in a residential | ||
| child detention facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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. | ||
