By McClendon                                           H.B. No. 136
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                                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.