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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