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.