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Senate Bill 2048 |
Senate Author: Williams |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Riddle |
Senate Bill 2048 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to authorize the commissioners court in a county with a population of 100,000 or more to designate the office of the sheriff of the county or the office of a chief of police of a municipality in that county to serve as a mandatory countywide registration location for persons subject to the sex offender registration program. The bill requires a person subject to such program to register or verify registration only with the centralized registration authority for the county, regardless of whether the person resides in any municipality located in that county, and requires the centralized registration authority, if the person resides in a municipality and the municipality's local law enforcement authority does not serve as the person's centralized registration authority, to provide notice of a person's registration or verification of registration to the local law enforcement authority within a certain time frame. The bill provides that if a sex offender registrant resides in a county with a centralized registration authority or resides in another state but works or attends school in such a county, the central registration authority serves as that person's primary registration authority, regardless of whether the person resides, works, or attends school, as applicable, in any municipality in that county.