By Allen H.B. No. 1758 76R6569 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of a sex offender compliance unit in the 1-3 Texas Department of Public Safety. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 411.0098 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 411.0098. SEX OFFENDER COMPLIANCE UNIT. (a) The 1-8 director shall create a sex offender compliance unit to be operated 1-9 by the department. 1-10 (b) The sex offender compliance unit shall investigate and 1-11 arrest individuals determined to have committed a sexually violent 1-12 offense, as defined by Article 62.01, Code of Criminal Procedure. 1-13 (c) The legislature may appropriate funds to the department 1-14 from the fugitive apprehension account for the purpose of paying 1-15 the costs to the department of implementing this section. 1-16 (d) The department may adopt rules as necessary to implement 1-17 this section. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. 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.