By Lindsay                                      S.B. No. 1167

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain exemptions from the sex offender registration

 1-3     requirement.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 8(b), Article 6252-13c.1, Revised

 1-6     Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  A person who has a reportable conviction or adjudication

 1-8     for which the person is subject to registration under this article

 1-9     may petition a district judge in the county where the person

1-10     resides or intends to reside for an exemption from this article.

1-11     After a hearing on the matter [If the person shows good cause], the

1-12     district judge may [shall] grant the exemption  if the person

1-13     proves by a preponderance of the evidence specific facts indicating

1-14     that registration under this article would place the person's

1-15     health and well-being in immediate danger.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.