Bill Text: TX HB1872 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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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 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1872-Introduced.html
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 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1872 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1872-Introduced.html
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| By: Murphy | H.B. No. 1872 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain 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 | ||
| CERTAIN GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITIES. (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) This section applies only to a general-law municipality | ||
| that is adjacent to a home-rule municipality. | ||
| (c) To provide for the public safety, the governing body of | ||
| a general-law municipality to which this section applies 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. | ||
| (d) The ordinance may establish a distance requirement | ||
| described by Subsection (c) 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, 2015. | ||
