80R5165 KCR-D

By: Bohac H.B. No. 1453

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the manner in which certain state officials request and receive notice of the residence of certain sex offenders.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by adding Article 62.0052 to read as follows:

Art. 62.0052. ELECTRONIC MAIL REPORTS FOR STATE LEGISLATORS. (a) The department shall maintain an electronic mail report service to which a member of the house of representatives or the senate of this state may electronically subscribe.

(b) The electronic mail report service maintained under Subsection (a) must:

(1) allow a subscribing representative or senator to request for each zip code any portion of which is located in the representative's or senator's district notification of:

(A) the release from a penal institution or placement on deferred adjudication community supervision, community supervision, or juvenile probation of a person who expects to reside or resides in that zip code and is required to register under this chapter; and

(B) any change in address of a person who expects to reside or resides in that zip code and is required to register under this chapter; and

(2) not less frequently than monthly, deliver to the subscribing representative or senator a report containing the information described by Subdivision (1).

(c) The department must include any public information described by Article 62.005 in an electronic mail report sent to a subscribing representative or senator.

SECTION 2. The Department of Public Safety shall have the electronic mail report service required to be maintained under Article 62.0052, Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act, fully functional and able to receive subscription requests and respond appropriately to those requests not later than January 1, 2008.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.