By Hill H.B. No. 2653
75R9009 PEP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the availability of information regarding a registered
1-3 sex offender to members of the public.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5, Article 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes,
1-6 is amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (d)
1-7 and (e) to read as follows:
1-8 (c) A local law enforcement authority shall:
1-9 (1) make public information described under Subsection
1-10 (b) of this section regarding any person who is registered with the
1-11 authority as required by this article available to the public
1-12 through the Internet to the extent the authority determines is
1-13 feasible; and
1-14 (2) release public information described under
1-15 Subsection (b) of this section to any person who submits to the
1-16 authority a written request for the information.
1-17 (d) The authority may charge a [the] person who requests
1-18 information under Subsection (c)(2) a fee not to exceed the amount
1-19 reasonably necessary to cover the administrative costs associated
1-20 with the authority's release of information to the person [under
1-21 this subsection].
1-22 (e) In this section, "Internet" means the largest
1-23 nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public computer network,
1-24 popularly known as the Internet.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.