By:  Hinojosa                                                     S.B. No. 1126

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the confidentiality of records regarding sex offense victims. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Article 57.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows: (a) The Sexual Assault Prevention and Crisis Services Program of the office of the attorney general [Texas Department of Health] shall develop and distribute to all law enforcement agencies of the state a pseudonym form to record the name, address, telephone number, and pseudonym of a victim. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.