By Keel H.B. No. 2142 75R7046 KEL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the confidentiality of the identity of a victim of 1-3 certain sex offenses. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subdivision (4), Article 57.01, Code of Criminal 1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (4) "Victim" means a person who was the subject of an 1-8 offense or an attempted offense under Section 21.11, Section 1-9 22.011, or Section 22.021, Penal Code. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.