By Wise H.B. No. 279 76R268 KEL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the newspaper publication of certain information 1-3 regarding sex offenders. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 62.03, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) The local law enforcement authority shall request that 1-8 the initial and duplicate newspaper notices described by Subsection 1-9 (e) be displayed in the newspaper in a manner most likely to be 1-10 seen and read by the greatest number of the newspaper's readers. 1-11 SECTION 2. Article 62.04, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-12 amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-13 (j) The local law enforcement authority shall request that 1-14 the initial and duplicate newspaper notices described by Subsection 1-15 (f) be displayed in the newspaper in a manner most likely to be 1-16 seen and read by the greatest number of the newspaper's readers. 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, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.