By Jackson                                            S.B. No. 1649
         76R4748 KEL-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to increasing public notice requirements for certain
 1-3     persons subject to sex offender registration.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added
 1-6     by Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,
 1-7     1997, is amended by adding Article 62.045 to read as follows:
 1-8           Art. 62.045.  ADDITIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE FOR CERTAIN OFFENDERS.
 1-9     (a)  On receipt of notice under this chapter that a person subject
1-10     to registration is due to be released from a penal institution or
1-11     intends to move to a new residence in this state, the department
1-12     shall verify the basis on which the person is subject to
1-13     registration.  If the basis on which the person is subject to
1-14     registration is a conviction of or an order of deferred
1-15     adjudication for a sexually violent offense, the department shall,
1-16     not later than the seventh day after the date on which the person
1-17     is released or the 10th day after the date on which the person
1-18     moves, provide written notice, mailed or delivered, to at least
1-19     each residential address within a one-mile radius in an area that
1-20     has not been subdivided, or a three-block area in an area that has
1-21     been subdivided, of the place where the person intends to reside.
1-22           (b)  The department shall include in the notice any
1-23     information that is public information under this chapter.   The
1-24     department may not include any information that is not public
 2-1     information under this chapter.
 2-2           (c)  The department shall establish procedures for a person
 2-3     with respect to whom notice is provided under this section to pay
 2-4     to the department all costs incurred by the department in providing
 2-5     the notice.  The person shall pay those costs in accordance with
 2-6     the procedures established under this subsection.
 2-7           SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Department of Public Safety shall
 2-8     establish the procedures required by Article 62.045, Code of
 2-9     Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
2-10     2000.
2-11           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
2-12     person subject to the requirements of Chapter 62, Code of Criminal
2-13     Procedure, as added by Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature,
2-14     Regular Session, 1997, for a reportable conviction or adjudication,
2-15     as defined by that chapter, that occurs on or after January 1,
2-16     2000.  A person subject to the requirements of Chapter 62, Code of
2-17     Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 668, Acts of the 75th
2-18     Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, for a reportable conviction or
2-19     adjudication, as defined by that chapter, that occurs before
2-20     January 1, 2000, is covered by the law in effect when the
2-21     reportable conviction or adjudication occurs, and the former law is
2-22     continued in effect for that purpose.
2-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-2     passage, and it is so enacted.