Bill Text: TX SB1183 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to testing of a juvenile for a sexually transmitted disease or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the filing of a petition alleging delinquent conduct that includes certain sexual offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-15 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [SB1183 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1183-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Huffman S.B. No. 1183
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 25, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 25, 2013,
sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1183 By: Schwertner

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to testing of a juvenile for a sexually transmitted
disease or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the filing of a
petition alleging delinquent conduct that includes certain sexual
offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.033, Family Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A child against whom a petition is filed that alleges
the child [found at the conclusion of an adjudication hearing under
Section 54.03 of this code to have] engaged in delinquent conduct
that includes [included] a violation of Section [Sections]
21.11(a)(1), 22.011, or 22.021, Penal Code, shall undergo a medical
procedure or test at the direction of the juvenile court designed to
show or help show whether the child has a sexually transmitted
disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, antibodies to HIV, or
infection with any other probable causative agent of AIDS. The
court may direct the child to undergo the procedure or test on the
court's own motion or on the request of the victim of the delinquent
conduct.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
petition alleging delinquent conduct filed on or after the
effective date of this Act, regardless of whether the alleged
delinquent conduct occurred before, on, or after the effective date
of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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