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HB355 • 2025

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.

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.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Craddick
Last action
2025-05-05
Official status
05/05/2025 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

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.

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.

What This Bill Does

  • 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.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  2. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  3. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Criminal Justice

  4. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  5. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  6. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1129

  7. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  8. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  9. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  10. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  11. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  12. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#1088

  13. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  14. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  15. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  16. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  17. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  18. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Recalled from subcommittee

  19. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  20. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  21. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .

  22. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered by s/c in public hearing

  23. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee

  24. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in subcommittee

  25. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  26. 2025-02-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to s/c on Juvenile Justice by Speaker

  27. 2024-11-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

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.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 355 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

89R721 MCF-D

By: Craddick

H.B. No. 355

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, 2026.