By: Shapiro S.B. No. 48
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the definition of "victim" in the context of
1-2 maintaining the confidentiality of a sex offense victim's identity.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision (4), Article 57.01, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (4) "Victim" means a person who was the subject of an
1-7 offense the commission of which leads to a reportable conviction or
1-8 adjudication under Article 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes [or an
1-9 attempted offense under Section 22.011 or Section 22.021, Penal
1-10 Code].
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.