Bill Text: TX HB458 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 458 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-24 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB458 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB458-Comm_Sub.html

	88R20227 MCF-D

	By: Craddick, Cook, Martinez Fischer, Dutton,	H.B. No. 458
	Talarico

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 458:

	By: Dutton	C.S.H.B. No. 458



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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, 2024.