Bill Text: TX SB369 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to certain information available to the public on a central database containing information about sex offenders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB369 Detail]

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  By: Whitmire  S.B. No. 369
         (In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 11, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  March 13, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to certain information available to the public on a
  central database containing information about sex offenders.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Article 62.005, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         (b)  The information contained in the database, including
  the numeric risk level assigned to a person under this chapter, is
  public information, with the exception of any information:
               (1)  regarding the person's social security number or
  driver's license number, or any home, work, or cellular telephone
  number of the person;
               (2)  that is described by Article 62.051(c)(7) or
  required by the department under Article 62.051(c)(8), including
  any information regarding an employer's name, address, or telephone
  number; or
               (3)  that would identify the victim of the offense for
  which the person is subject to registration.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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