Bill Text: TX HB2959 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to providing children committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department with certain documents on discharge or release.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-05 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB2959 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2959-Engrossed.html
| By: Cain, Neave Criado, Gates, Plesa, | H.B. No. 2959 | |
| Collier, et al. | ||
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| 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 [ |
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| 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 [ |
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| 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. | ||
