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.