By: Whitmire, et al. S.B. No. 581
 
  (Alvarado)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirements for a change of name for a person with
  a final felony conviction or a person required to register as a sex
  offender.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 45.103, Family Code, is amended by
  amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read
  as follows:
         (b)  A court may order a change of name under this subchapter
  for a person with a final felony conviction if:
               (1)[,] in addition to the requirements of Subsection
  (a), the person has:
                     (A) [(1)]  received a certificate of discharge by
  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or completed a period of
  community supervision or juvenile probation ordered by a court and
  not less than two years have passed from the date of the receipt of
  discharge or completion of community supervision or juvenile
  probation; or
                     (B) [(2)]  been pardoned; or
               (2)  the person is requesting to change the person's
  name to the primary name used in the person's criminal history
  record information.
         (c)  A court may order a change of name under this subchapter
  for a person subject to the registration requirements of Chapter
  62, Code of Criminal Procedure, if the person:
               (1) meets[, in addition to] the requirements of
  Subsection (a) or is requesting to change the person's name to the
  primary name used in the person's criminal history record
  information; and
               (2)[, the person] provides the court with proof that the
  person has notified the appropriate local law enforcement authority
  of the proposed name change.  
         (d)  In this section:
               (1)  "Criminal history record information" has the
  meaning assigned by Section 411.082, Government Code.
               (2)  "Local [subsection, "local] law enforcement
  authority" has the meaning assigned by Article 62.001, Code of
  Criminal Procedure.
         SECTION 2.  Section 45.103, Family Code, as amended by this
  Act, applies only to a petition for a change of name that is filed on
  or after the effective date of this Act. A petition filed before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
  the date the petition was filed, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.