By Bailey H.B. No. 2625
77R8584 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to public access to sex offender information and criminal
1-3 history record information maintained by the Department of Public
1-4 Safety.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 411.135(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) Any person is entitled to obtain from the department:
1-9 (1) any information described as public information
1-10 under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, [as added by Chapter
1-11 668, Acts of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,]
1-12 including, to the extent available, a recent photograph of each
1-13 person subject to registration under that chapter and the person's
1-14 social security number; and
1-15 (2) criminal history record information maintained by
1-16 the department that relates to the conviction of or a grant of
1-17 deferred adjudication to a person for any criminal offense,
1-18 including arrest information that relates to the conviction or
1-19 grant of deferred adjudication, and the person's social security
1-20 number.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.