By McClendon H.B. No. 136
76R423 PEP
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the applicability of public notice requirements to
1-3 certain registered sex offenders.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 62.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 62.11. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to a
1-8 reportable conviction or adjudication occurring on or after
1-9 September 1, 1970[, except that the provisions of Articles 62.03
1-10 and 62.04 of this chapter relating to the requirement of newspaper
1-11 publication apply only to a reportable conviction or adjudication
1-12 occurring on or after:]
1-13 [(1) September 1, 1997, if the conviction or
1-14 adjudication relates to an offense under Section 43.05, Penal Code;
1-15 or]
1-16 [(2) September 1, 1995, if the conviction or
1-17 adjudication relates to any other offense listed in Article
1-18 62.01(5)].
1-19 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Article
1-20 62.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies only to a person for
1-21 whom a duty to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62 of that
1-22 code or former Article 6252-13c.1, Revised Statutes, has not
1-23 expired before the effective date of this Act.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.