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House Bill 424 |
House Author: Burkett et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Deuell |
House Bill 424 amends the Health and Safety Code to require a director of a group home, as soon as practicable after a person requests to live at a group home or is assigned to live at a group home as a condition of community supervision or as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision, to ascertain whether the person is registered in the sex offender registration program and, not later than the third day after the date a person who is registered in the program becomes a resident of the group home, to provide notice that the person is a sex offender to the legal guardian of each current resident who has a legal guardian and directly to each other resident. The bill specifies that a group home or its director is not liable under any law for damages arising from conduct required under the bill's provisions and establishes requirements for a director to ascertain whether any resident of the group home is registered in the program and to provide notice of a person who is registered in the program to the legal guardian of each current resident who has a legal guardian and directly to each other resident. The bill's provisions do not apply to a group home that accepts or is assigned only residents who are sex offenders required to register under the sex offender registration program if the residents receive treatment at the group home from a licensed sex offender treatment provider.