By Shapiro S.B. No. 48
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of "victim" in the context of
1-3 maintaining the confidentiality of a sex offense victim's identity.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 57.01(4), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (4) "Victim" means a person who was the subject of an
1-8 offense the commission of which leads to a reportable conviction or
1-9 adjudication under Article 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes [or an
1-10 attempted offense under Section 22.011 or Section 22.021, Penal
1-11 Code].
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.