By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1380
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain disclosure and registration requirements under
 1-3     the sex offender registration program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Article 62.045, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  An owner, builder, seller, or lessor of a single-family
 1-8     residential real property or any improvement to residential real
 1-9     property or that person's broker, salesperson, or other agent or
1-10     representative in a residential real estate transaction does not
1-11     have a [the owner's agent has no] duty to make a disclosure to a
1-12     prospective buyer or lessee [tenant] about registrants under this
1-13     chapter.  To the extent of any conflict between this subsection and
1-14     another law imposing a duty to disclose information about
1-15     registered sex offenders, this subsection controls.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Article 62.12, Code of Criminal
1-17     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-18           (a)  The duty to register for a person ends when the person
1-19     dies if the person has [with] a reportable conviction or
1-20     adjudication for:
1-21                 (1)  a sexually violent offense;
1-22                 (2)  [or for] an offense under Section 25.02,
1-23     43.05(a)(2), or 43.26, Penal Code;
1-24                 (3)  an offense under Section 21.11(a)(2), Penal Code,
1-25     if before or after the person is convicted or adjudicated for the
 2-1     offense under Section 21.11(a)(2), Penal Code, the person receives
 2-2     or has received another reportable conviction or adjudication for
 2-3     an offense or conduct that requires registration under this
 2-4     chapter; or
 2-5                 (4)  an offense under Section 20.02, 20.03, or 20.04,
 2-6     Penal Code, or an attempt, conspiracy, or solicitation to commit
 2-7     one of those offenses, if:
 2-8                       (A)  the judgment in the case contains an
 2-9     affirmative finding under Article 42.015 or, for an adjudication of
2-10     delinquent conduct, the papers in the case contain an affirmative
2-11     finding that the victim or intended victim was younger than 17
2-12     years of age; and
2-13                       (B)  before or after the person is convicted or
2-14     adjudicated for the offense under Section 20.02, 20.03, or 20.04,
2-15     Penal Code, the person receives or has received another reportable
2-16     conviction or adjudication for an offense or conduct that requires
2-17     registration under this chapter[, ends when the person dies].
2-18           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
2-19     defendant with a reportable conviction or adjudication for an
2-20     offense or conduct under Subdivision (2), Subsection (a), Section
2-21     21.11, Penal Code, that was  committed before, on, or after the
2-22     effective date of this Act and to a defendant with a reportable
2-23     conviction or adjudication for an offense or conduct under Section
2-24     20.02, 20.03, or 20.04, Penal Code, that was committed on or after
2-25     September 1, 1999.
2-26           SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.