Bill Text: TX HB908 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB908 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB908-Introduced.html
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| By: Spiller | H.B. No. 908 | |
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| relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing | ||
| children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| as added by Chapter 729 (H.B. 2660), Acts of the 88th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Regardless of the jurisdiction in which the child went | ||
| missing, a law enforcement agency, on receiving a report of a | ||
| missing child, shall: | ||
| (1) immediately start an investigation in order to | ||
| determine the present location of the child; | ||
| (2) immediately, but not later than two hours after | ||
| receiving the report, enter the name of the child into the | ||
| clearinghouse and the national crime information center missing | ||
| person file if the child meets the center's criteria, with all | ||
| available identifying features such as dental records, | ||
| fingerprints, other physical characteristics, and a description of | ||
| the clothing worn when last seen, and all available information | ||
| describing any person reasonably believed to have taken or retained | ||
| the missing child; | ||
| (3) immediately, but not later than two hours after | ||
| the agency receives the report, enter the applicable information | ||
| into: | ||
| (A) the Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications | ||
| System or a successor system of telecommunication used by law | ||
| enforcement agencies and operated by the Department of Public | ||
| Safety; and | ||
| (B) the National Center for Missing and Exploited | ||
| Children; | ||
| (4) not later than 48 hours after receiving the | ||
| report, electronically submit to each municipal or county law | ||
| enforcement agency within 200 miles the report and any information | ||
| that may help determine the present location of the child; | ||
| (5) not later than the 30th day after the date the | ||
| agency receives the report, enter the name of the child into the | ||
| National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, with all | ||
| available identifying features such as dental records, | ||
| fingerprints, other physical characteristics, and a description of | ||
| the clothing worn when last seen, and all available information | ||
| describing any person reasonably believed to have taken or retained | ||
| the missing child; and | ||
| (6) inform the person who filed the report of the | ||
| missing child that the information will be: | ||
| (A) entered into the clearinghouse, the national | ||
| crime information center missing person file, the National Center | ||
| for Missing and Exploited Children, and the National Missing and | ||
| Unidentified Persons System; and | ||
| (B) submitted to each municipal or county law | ||
| enforcement agency within 200 miles. | ||
| SECTION 2. Article 63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| as added by Chapter 979 (S.B. 2429), Acts of the 88th Legislature, | ||
| Regular Session, 2023, is repealed as duplicative of Article | ||
| 63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 729 | ||
| (H.B. 2660), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
