By Farrar                                             H.B. No. 2958

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the release of certain information contained in a

 1-3     criminal defendant's presentence or postsentence report.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 9(m), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal

 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (m)  In this section, "sex offender" means a person who has

 1-8     admitted committing, been convicted of, or [has] entered a plea of

 1-9     guilty or nolo contendere for an offense under any one of the

1-10     following provisions of the Penal Code:

1-11                 (1)  Section 20.04(a)(4) (Aggravated Kidnapping), if

1-12     the person committed the offense with the intent to violate or

1-13     abuse the victim sexually;

1-14                 (2)  Section 21.08 (Indecent Exposure);

1-15                 (3)  Section 21.11 (Indecency with a Child);

1-16                 (4)  Section 22.011 (Sexual Assault);

1-17                 (5)  Section 22.021 (Aggravated Sexual Assault);

1-18                 (6)  Section 25.02 (Prohibited Sexual Conduct);

1-19                 (7)  Section 30.02 (Burglary), if:

1-20                       (A)  the offense is punishable under Subsection

1-21     (d) of that section;  and

1-22                       (B)  the person committed the offense with the

1-23     intent to commit a felony listed in this subsection;

1-24                 (8)  Section 43.25 (Sexual Performance by a Child); or

 2-1                 (9)  Section 43.26 (Possession or Promotion of Child

 2-2     Pornography).

 2-3           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.