Senate Bill 1518
Senate Author: King
Effective: 9-1-23
House Sponsor: Guillen et al.
Senate Bill 1518 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure, Government Code, and Penal Code to create the criminal offenses of terrorism, aiding in the commission of terrorism, and hindering the prosecution of terrorism and to establish a terrorist offender registration program. Among other provisions, the bill requires the Department of Public Safety to maintain a central database containing the information required for registration, to provide notification of a person's registration to a licensing authority or institution of higher education under certain circumstances, and to establish procedures for sharing registration information with law enforcement personnel and criminal justice officials and for establishing an alert flag on criminal history record information of persons required to register. Additionally, the bill establishes registration and verification requirements and provides for prerelease notification to persons subject to registration, the provision of a DNA specimen by registrants, residential restrictions and requirements relating to driver's licenses or personal identification certificates, an offense for failure to comply with registration requirements, the expiration of a person's duty to register, and the removal of registration information upon that expiration.