1-1     By:  West (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                   H.B. No. 121
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 19, 2001;
 1-3     March 20, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; April 3, 2001, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 3, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to information a person required to register as a sex
 1-9     offender must report to a local law enforcement authority.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Article 62.05(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  A [If a] person subject to registration under this
1-14     chapter [required to register is not supervised by an officer
1-15     listed in Subsection (a), the person] shall report to the local law
1-16     enforcement authority any change in the person's physical health or
1-17     job status not later than the seventh day after the date of the
1-18     change.  For purposes of this subsection, a person's job status
1-19     changes if the person leaves employment for any reason, remains
1-20     employed by an employer but changes the location at which the
1-21     person works, or begins employment with a new employer. For
1-22     purposes of this subsection, a person's health status changes if
1-23     the person is hospitalized as a result of an illness.
1-24           SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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