Bill Text: TX HB1177 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1177 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the authority of general-law municipalities to restrict sex offenders from child safety zones in the municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB1177 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1177-Introduced.html

	83R540 NC-D

	By: Gooden	H.B. No. 1177



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of general-law municipalities to restrict
	sex offenders from child safety zones in the municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 341, Local Government
	Code, is amended by adding Section 341.906 to read as follows:
	Sec. 341.906. LIMITATIONS ON REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS IN
	GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY. (a) In this section:
	(1) "Child safety zone" means premises where children
	commonly gather. The term includes a school, day-care facility,
	playground, public or private youth center, public swimming pool,
	video arcade facility, or other facility that regularly holds
	events primarily for children.
	(2) "Playground," "premises," "school," "video arcade
	facility," and "youth center" have the meanings assigned by Section
	481.134, Health and Safety Code.
	(b) To provide for the public safety, the governing body of
	a general-law municipality by ordinance may restrict an individual
	who is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code
	of Criminal Procedure, from going in, on, or within a specified
	distance of a child safety zone in the municipality.
	(c) The ordinance may establish a distance requirement
	described by Subsection (b) at any distance of not more than 1,000
	feet.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2013.