1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 48
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the definition of "victim" in the context of
1-9 maintaining the confidentiality of a sex offense victim's identity.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subdivision (4), Article 57.01, Code of Criminal
1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (4) "Victim" means a person who was the subject of an
1-14 offense the commission of which leads to a reportable conviction or
1-15 adjudication under Article 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes [or an
1-16 attempted offense under Section 22.011 or Section 22.021, Penal
1-17 Code].
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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