BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center                                                                                                     H.B. 3659

80R8746 CAE-D                                                                                                 By: Dunnam (Ellis)

Criminal Justice

5/17/2007

Engrossed

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

Section 21.12 (Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student), Penal Code, deals with an employee of a public or private primary or secondary school who commits an offense by engaging in sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or deviant sexual intercourse with a person who is enrolled in a public or private primary or secondary school at which the employee works and who is not the employee's spouse.

H.B. 3659 protects the identity of a student victimized by a school employee under Section 21.12, Penal Code, by prohibiting the name of the student from being released to the public.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 21.12, Penal Code, by adding Subsection (d), to prohibit the name of a person who is enrolled in a public or private primary or secondary school and involved in an improper relationship with an educator from being released to the public and provides that such information is not public information under Chapter 552 (Public Information), Government Code.

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2007.