81R3667 KCR-D
By: Bohac H.B. No. 3068
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 REPORT SERVICE 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,
2010.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.