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1	1		89R3292 EAS-D
2		-	By: Spiller, Lalani, et al. H.B. No. 908
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	2	+	By: Spiller H.B. No. 908
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7	5		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	6		AN ACT
9	7		relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing
10	8		children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
11	9		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	10		SECTION 1. Article 63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
13	11		as added by Chapter 729 (H.B. 2660), Acts of the 88th Legislature,
14	12		Regular Session, 2023, is amended to read as follows:
15	13		(a) Regardless of the jurisdiction in which the child went
16	14		missing, a law enforcement agency, on receiving a report of a
17	15		missing child, shall:
18	16		(1) immediately start an investigation in order to
19	17		determine the present location of the child;
20	18		(2) immediately, but not later than two hours after
21	19		receiving the report, enter the name of the child into the
22	20		clearinghouse and the national crime information center missing
23	21		person file if the child meets the center's criteria, with all
24	22		available identifying features such as dental records,
25	23		fingerprints, other physical characteristics, and a description of
26	24		the clothing worn when last seen, and all available information
27	25		describing any person reasonably believed to have taken or retained
28	26		the missing child;
29	27		(3) immediately, but not later than two hours after
30	28		the agency receives the report, enter the applicable information
31	29		into:
32	30		(A) the Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications
33	31		System or a successor system of telecommunication used by law
34	32		enforcement agencies and operated by the Department of Public
35	33		Safety; and
36	34		(B) the National Center for Missing and Exploited
37	35		Children;
38	36		(4) not later than 48 hours after receiving the
39	37		report, electronically submit to each municipal or county law
40	38		enforcement agency within 200 miles the report and any information
41	39		that may help determine the present location of the child;
42	40		(5) not later than the 30th day after the date the
43	41		agency receives the report, enter the name of the child into the
44	42		National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, with all
45	43		available identifying features such as dental records,
46	44		fingerprints, other physical characteristics, and a description of
47	45		the clothing worn when last seen, and all available information
48	46		describing any person reasonably believed to have taken or retained
49	47		the missing child; and
50	48		(6) inform the person who filed the report of the
51	49		missing child that the information will be:
52	50		(A) entered into the clearinghouse, the national
53	51		crime information center missing person file, the National Center
54	52		for Missing and Exploited Children, and the National Missing and
55	53		Unidentified Persons System; and
56	54		(B) submitted to each municipal or county law
57	55		enforcement agency within 200 miles.
58	56		SECTION 2. Article 63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
59	57		as added by Chapter 979 (S.B. 2429), Acts of the 88th Legislature,
60	58		Regular Session, 2023, is repealed as duplicative of Article
61	59		63.00905(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 729
62	60		(H.B. 2660), Acts of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023.
63	61		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.