By Corte H.B. No. 1818
75R405 PEP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public notice of the release into the community of
1-3 persons convicted of certain sexual offenses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3(e), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised
1-6 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) Not later than the eighth day after receiving a
1-8 registration form under Subsection (b), (c), or (d) of this
1-9 section, the local law enforcement authority shall verify the age
1-10 of the victim and the basis on which the person is subject to
1-11 registration under this article. If the victim is a child younger
1-12 than 17 years of age and the basis on which the person is subject
1-13 to registration is not an adjudication of delinquent conduct or a
1-14 deferred adjudication and is not a conviction for an offense under
1-15 Section 25.02, Penal Code, the authority shall immediately publish
1-16 notice in English and Spanish in the [at least one] newspaper of
1-17 greatest paid [general] circulation in the county in which the
1-18 person subject to registration intends to reside or, if there is no
1-19 newspaper of paid circulation in that county, in the newspaper of
1-20 greatest general circulation in the county. The authority shall
1-21 publish a duplicate notice in the newspaper, with any necessary
1-22 corrections, during the week immediately following the week of
1-23 initial publication. If the victim is a child younger than 17
1-24 years of age, regardless of the basis on which the person is
2-1 subject to registration, the authority shall immediately provide
2-2 notice to the superintendent of public schools of the school
2-3 district in which the person subject to registration intends to
2-4 reside by mail to the district office.
2-5 SECTION 2. Section 4(f), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised
2-6 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
2-7 (f) If the person moves to another municipality or county in
2-8 this state, the department shall inform the applicable local law
2-9 enforcement authority in the new area of the person's residence not
2-10 later than the third day after the date on which the department
2-11 receives information under Subsection (a) of this section. Not
2-12 later than the eighth day after the date on which the local law
2-13 enforcement authority is informed under Subsection (a) of this
2-14 section or under this subsection, the authority shall verify the
2-15 age of the victim and the basis on which the person is subject to
2-16 registration under this article. If the victim is a child younger
2-17 than 17 years of age and the basis on which the person is subject
2-18 to registration is not an adjudication of delinquent conduct or a
2-19 deferred adjudication and is not a conviction for an offense under
2-20 Section 25.02, Penal Code, the authority shall immediately publish
2-21 notice in English and Spanish in the [at least one] newspaper of
2-22 greatest paid [general] circulation in the county in which the
2-23 person subject to registration intends to reside or, if there is no
2-24 newspaper of paid circulation in that county, in the newspaper of
2-25 greatest general circulation in the county. The local law
2-26 enforcement authority shall publish a duplicate notice in the
2-27 newspaper, with any necessary corrections, during the week
3-1 immediately following the week of initial publication. If the
3-2 victim is a child younger than 17 years of age, regardless of the
3-3 basis on which the person is subject to registration, the authority
3-4 shall immediately provide notice to the superintendent of public
3-5 schools of the school district in which the person subject to
3-6 registration intends to reside by mail to the district office.
3-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.