1-1     By:  Jackson                                           S.B. No. 565
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 17, 1999; February 18, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 19, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 19, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the creation of a sex offender compliance unit in the
 1-9     Texas Department of Public Safety.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 411.0098 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 411.0098.  SEX OFFENDER COMPLIANCE UNIT.  (a)  The
1-14     director shall create a sex offender compliance unit to be operated
1-15     by the department.
1-16           (b)  The sex offender compliance unit shall investigate and
1-17     arrest individuals determined to have committed a sexually violent
1-18     offense, as defined by Article 62.01, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-19           (c)  The legislature may appropriate funds to the department
1-20     from the fugitive apprehension account for the purpose of paying
1-21     the costs to the department of implementing this section.
1-22           (d)  The department may adopt rules as necessary to implement
1-23     this section.
1-24           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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