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.