By:  Hinojosa                                                     S.B. No. 1126
	(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2005; March 21, 2005, read 
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 
April 13, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, 
Nays 0; April 13, 2005, sent to printer.)


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.                           



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