Amend CSSB 1224 (Senate Committee Printing) by adding
appropriately numbered SECTIONS to read as follows and renumbering
existing SECTIONS accordingly:
      SECTION ____. (a)  Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, as
amended by Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular
Session, 1997, is amended by adding Article 62.0451 to read as
follows:
      Art. 62.0451.  ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE FOR INDIVIDUALS
SUBJECT TO CIVIL COMMITMENT. (a)  On receipt of notice under this
chapter that a person subject to registration who is civilly
committed as a sexually violent predator is due to be released from
a penal institution or intends to move to a new residence in this
state, the department shall, not later than the seventh day after
the date on which the person is released or the 10th day after the
date on which the person moves, provide written notice mailed or
delivered to at least each residential address within a one-mile
radius, in an area that has not been subdivided, or a three-block
area, in an area that has been subdivided, of the place where the
person intends to reside.
      (b)  The department shall include in the notice any
information that is public information under this chapter.  The
department may not include any information that is not public
information under this chapter.
      (c)  The department shall establish procedures for a person
with respect to whom notice is provided under this article to pay
to the department all costs incurred by the department in providing
the notice.  The person shall pay those costs in accordance with
the procedures established under this subsection.
      (d)  The department's duty to provide notice under this
article in regard to a particular person ends on the date on which
a court releases the person from all requirements of the  civil
commitment process.
      (b)  Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by
Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
is amended by adding Article 62.061 to read as follows:
      Art. 62.061.  VERIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO
COMMITMENT. (a)  Notwithstanding Article 62.06, if an individual
subject to registration under this chapter is civilly committed as
a sexually violent predator, the person shall report to the local
law enforcement authority with whom the person is required to
register not less than once in each 30-day period following the
date the person first registered under this chapter to verify the
information in the registration form maintained by the authority
for that person.  For purposes of this subsection, a person
complies with a requirement that the person register within a
30-day period following a date if the person registers at any time
on or after the 27th day following that date but before the 33rd
day after that date.
      (b)  On the date that a court releases a person described by
Subsection (a) from all requirements of the civil commitment
process:
            (1)  the person's duty to verify registration as a sex
offender is no longer imposed by this article; and
            (2)  the person is required to verify registration as
provided by Article 62.06.
      (c)  Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by
Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,
is amended by adding Article 62.101 to read as follows:
      Art. 62.101.  FAILURE TO COMPLY:  INDIVIDUALS SUBJECT TO
COMMITMENT. (a)  A person commits an offense if the person, after
commitment as a sexually violent predator but before the person is
released from all requirements of the civil commitment process,
fails to comply with any requirement of this chapter.
      (b)  An offense under this section is a felony of the second
degree.
      (d)  Articles 62.0451, 62.061, and 62.101, Code of Criminal
Procedure, as added by this section, take effect on January 1,
2000, but only if an Act of the 76th Legislature, Regular Session,
1999, establishing a process for the civil commitment of sex
offenders becomes law before that date.  If an Act of the 76th
Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, relating to establishing a
process for the civil commitment of sex offenders does not become
law before January 1, 2000, Articles 62.061 and 62.101, as added by
this section, have no effect.
      SECTION ____. Subsections (b) and (c), Article 62.10, Code of
Criminal Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
      (b)  An offense under this article is:
            (1)  a state jail felony if the actor is a person whose
duty to register expires under Article 62.12(b);
            (2)  a felony of the third degree if the actor is a
person whose duty to register expires under Article 62.12(a) and
who is required to verify registration once each year under Article
62.06; and
            (3)  a felony of the second degree if the actor is a
person whose duty to register expires under Article 62.12(a) and
who is required to verify registration once each 90-day period
under Article 62.06.
      (c)  If it is shown at the trial of a person for an offense
under this article that the person has previously been convicted of
an offense under this article, the punishment for the offense is
increased to the punishment for the next highest degree of felony
<person shall be punished for a felony of the third degree>.