By: Jackson S.B. No. 565
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the creation of a sex offender compliance unit in the
1-2 Texas Department of Public Safety.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Section 411.0098 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 411.0098. SEX OFFENDER COMPLIANCE UNIT. (a) The
1-7 director shall create a sex offender compliance unit to be operated
1-8 by the department.
1-9 (b) The sex offender compliance unit shall investigate and
1-10 arrest individuals determined to have committed a sexually violent
1-11 offense, as defined by Article 62.01, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-12 (c) The legislature may appropriate funds to the department
1-13 from the fugitive apprehension account for the purpose of paying
1-14 the costs to the department of implementing this section.
1-15 (d) The department may adopt rules as necessary to implement
1-16 this section.
1-17 SECTION 2. Except as provided by Section 3 of this Act, this
1-18 Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect only if a specific
1-20 appropriation for the implementation of this Act is provided in
1-21 H.B. No. 1 (General Appropriations Act), Acts of the 76th
1-22 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999. If no specific appropriation
1-23 is provided in H.B. No. 1, the General Appropriations Act, this Act
1-24 has no effect.
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.