By: Hill, F. H.B. No. 181
73R893 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the registration of certain persons convicted of
1-3 obscenity offenses under the sexual offenders registration program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1(5), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised
1-6 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (5) "Reportable conviction or adjudication" means:
1-8 (A) a conviction for violation of Section 21.11
1-9 (Indecency with a child), 22.011 (Sexual assault), 22.021
1-10 (Aggravated sexual assault), <or> 25.02 (Incest), Penal Code;
1-11 (B) a conviction for violation of Section 43.25
1-12 (Sexual performance by a child) or 43.26 (Possession or promotion
1-13 of child pornography), Penal Code;
1-14 (C) the fourth conviction for a violation of
1-15 Section 21.08 (Indecent exposure), Penal Code; or
1-16 (D) <(C)> an adjudication of delinquent conduct
1-17 based on a violation of one of the offenses listed in Paragraph (A)
1-18 or (B) of this subdivision or for which four violations of the
1-19 offenses listed in Paragraph (C) <(B)> of this subdivision are
1-20 shown.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 8(a), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised
1-22 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) This article applies only to a reportable conviction or
1-24 adjudication occurring on or after:
2-1 (1) September 1, 1991, if the conviction is for or the
2-2 adjudication is based on an offense listed in Section 1(5)(A) or
2-3 (C) of this article; or
2-4 (2) September 1, 1993, if the conviction is for or the
2-5 adjudication is based on an offense listed in Section 1(5)(B) of
2-6 this article.
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.