2025 Texas sessionsRegular and both called sessions have ended. This index covers House and Senate bills, not resolutions. Statuses come from official reports.

2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB908

HB908 adds the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the destinations that a law-enforcement agency must promptly notify after receiving a missing-child report.

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Official caption: Relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Official report lists House author(s): Spiller, Lalani. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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Bill highlights

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HB908 adds the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the destinations that a law-enforcement agency must promptly notify after receiving a missing-child report.
The agency must also tell the person who made the missing-child report that the information will be entered with NCMEC, alongside the other already-listed systems and agencies.
The act retains the existing requirements to start investigating immediately, make prompt state and national crime-information entries under the stated conditions, send the report and useful information to municipal and county law-enforcement agencies within 200 miles within 48 hours, and enter the child in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System by day 30.
The law also repeals a duplicative 2023 version of Article 63.00905(a), while preserving and amending the version containing the 48-hour/200-mile reporting requirement.

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What does it do?

HB908 adds the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to the destinations that a law-enforcement agency must promptly notify after receiving a missing-child report. The agency must enter the applicable information immediately, and no later than two hours after receiving the report. The duty applies regardless of the jurisdiction where the child went missing. “Two hours” is an outside deadline, not permission to wait before starting work. Final law

The agency must also tell the person who made the missing-child report that the information will be entered with NCMEC, alongside the other already-listed systems and agencies.

The act retains the existing requirements to start investigating immediately, make prompt state and national crime-information entries under the stated conditions, send the report and useful information to municipal and county law-enforcement agencies within 200 miles within 48 hours, and enter the child in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System by day 30. HB908 adds NCMEC reporting; it does not newly create all of those older deadlines or change them into waiting periods.

The law also repeals a duplicative 2023 version of Article 63.00905(a), while preserving and amending the version containing the 48-hour/200-mile reporting requirement. It took effect September 1, 2025. Official history

What changed along the way?

The introduced bill, House committee report, engrossed version, Senate committee report and final law have identical operative language. Both committees reported it without amendments, and the official amendment index lists none. There was no conference rewrite. The governor signed June 20 after House passage April 3 and Senate passage May 23.

The older provisions came from 2023 HB2660 and 2023 SB2429. HB908 retains the HB2660 version’s regional notice provisions rather than removing those duties when cleaning up the duplicate section.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Missing children, families and investigators may benefit from ensuring NCMEC receives information promptly and consistently. The added reporting route can support coordination, but the act does not guarantee a child’s recovery or automatically trigger an AMBER Alert.

Law-enforcement agencies must incorporate the additional reporting destination and family notification into their procedures. The latest fiscal note anticipated no significant state or local-government fiscal impact, assuming implementation costs could be absorbed using existing resources. The act does not appropriate new money or create a new criminal penalty.

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