By McClendon H.B. No. 139 76R433 KEL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to maintenance by the Department of Public Safety of a 1-3 toll-free telephone number to provide public access to certain sex 1-4 offender registration information. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 411.135(b), Government Code, as added by 1-7 Chapter 747, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, 1-8 is amended to read as follows: 1-9 (b) The department by rule shall design and implement a 1-10 system to respond to electronic inquiries and other inquiries for 1-11 information described by Subsection (a). The department shall 1-12 also maintain a toll-free telephone number that a person may call 1-13 to obtain information described by Subsection (a)(1). 1-14 SECTION 2. The Department of Public Safety shall implement 1-15 the toll-free telephone number described by Section 411.135(b), 1-16 Government Code, as amended by this Act, no later than October 1, 1-17 1999. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 4. 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.