03-04-2025
Texas passes House Bill 908 to enhance child protection laws
AUSTIN (KFDX/KJTL) — Texas lawmakers are taking the next step in safeguarding children.
House Bill 908 was read on the house floor Wednesday morning, April 2, 2025.
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It passed favorably but will be voted on Thursday, April 3, or for a third reading recorded vote before heading to the Senate.
Representative David Spiller presented the bill on the House floor. Glenda Durham, a Bowie resident, authored it and testified at the capitol on March 12.
As somebody who has been turned down for a missing kids report in her family, she said this passage shows lawmakers value children.
'No more will families be turned away. The systems will be followed as they should. And it's no longer a subjective assessment by a disinterest, a police officer. And I'm not knocking our police. I appreciate our police. But when it comes to missing kids, they need to report it to every agency available,' Durham said.
Durham hosts a missing kids prayer group every Saturday.
The group sees the week's list from the missing kids dot org website and prays for the children on that list that week.
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