Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 1380 amends provisions of the law relating to the sex offender registration program. The bill amends the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Government Code, and the Human Resources Code to require a person who is subject to registration as a sex offender to submit a blood sample or other specimen in order to create a DNA record as a condition of community supervision, probation, parole, mandatory supervision, or release. The bill adds offenders who are required to register as sex offenders under federal law or the Uniform Code of Military Justice to provisions regarding out-of-state registrant requirements. The bill provides that a person's duty to register is terminated if the conviction or adjudication that required the duty is set aside on appeal or the person receives a pardon on the basis of subsequent proof of innocence. For a conviction or adjudication of certain sexual offenses, a person's duty to register as a sex offender ends when the person dies.

            The Department of Public Safety is required to determine, for the purpose of the sex offender registration program, whether an offense under the laws of another state, federal law, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice contains elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense under Texas law. The department is required to publish any public information under the sex offender registration program in both English and Spanish. The bill requires the department to post on its sex offender website the offender's driver's license or personal identification certificate photograph and to update the photograph annually.

            The bill requires a law enforcement agency to collect from a person who is subject to newspaper publication requirements, and who is not under community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision, the cost of publishing certain notices in a newspaper. The bill expands the list of people who do not have a duty to disclose to a prospective buyer or lessee information about sex offender registrants.