85R1319 NC-F
By: Gooden H.B. No. 1063
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 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) 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, 2017.