By McClendon                                    H.B. No. 3113

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to providing public notice on release of a sex offender

 1-3     into the community.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 3(f), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised

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

 1-7           (f)  The local law enforcement authority shall include in the

 1-8     notice by publication in a newspaper the following information

 1-9     only:

1-10                 (1)  the person's full name, age, and gender;

1-11                 (2)  a brief description of the offense for which the

1-12     person is subject to registration; [and]

1-13                 (3)  the municipality, numeric street address [name],

1-14     and zip code number where the person intends to reside; and

1-15                 (4)  a recent photograph of the person.

1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 4(g), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised

1-17     Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

1-18           (g)  The local law enforcement authority shall include in the

1-19     notice by publication in a newspaper the following information

1-20     only:

1-21                 (1)  the person's full name, age, and gender;

1-22                 (2)  a brief description of the offense for which the

1-23     person is subject to registration; [and]

1-24                 (3)  the municipality, numeric street address [name],

 2-1     and zip code number where the person intends to reside; and

 2-2                 (4)  a recent photograph of the person.

 2-3           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-4           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.