HBA-SEB H.B. 3355 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3355 By: Staples Juvenile Justice and Family Issues 4/7/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current law requires a law enforcement officer who takes a child into custody to transport the child to the appropriate detention facility if the child is not released. If the detention facility is located in another county, however, the sheriff of the county where the child was taken into custody must transport the child. This transportation requirement may be a burden for a sheriff's department with few resources and a limited workforce. H.B. 3355 removes a sheriff's responsibility to transport a juvenile to another county's juvenile detention facility. In this way, the law enforcement officer who takes the child into custody must transport the child. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Sections 52.026(b) and (c), Family Code, to delete a requirement that the sheriff of a county transport a child to an appropriate juvenile detention facility, if the juvenile facility is located in another county, unless the child is detained in a secure detention facility or is released to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child. SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective. SECTION 3.Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.