By: Huffman S.C.R. No. 66
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 20 has been adopted by the senate
and the house of representatives and is being prepared for
enrollment; and
WHEREAS, The bill contains technical errors that should be
corrected; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas, That
the enrolling clerk of the senate be instructed to make the
following corrections to the enrolled version of Senate Bill
No. 20:
(1) In SECTION 3.01 of the bill, in the recital to amended
Section 43.01, Penal Code (conference committee report, page 14,
lines 5-6), strike "adding Subdivisions (1-b) and (1-c)" and
substitute "amending Subdivisions (1) and (1-a) and adding
Subdivisions (1-b), (1-c), (1-d), and (1-e)".
(2) In SECTION 3.01 of the bill, in amended Section 43.01,
Penal Code (conference committee report, page 14, between lines 6
and 7), immediately after the recital to that SECTION, insert the
following:
(1) "Access software provider" means a provider of
software, including client or server software, or enabling tools
that perform one or more of the following functions:
(A) filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;
(B) select, analyze, or digest content; or
(C) transmit, receive, display, forward, cache,
search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.
(1-a) [(1)] "Deviate sexual intercourse" means any
contact between the genitals of one person and the mouth or anus of
another person.
(1-b) [(1-a)] "Fee" means the payment or offer of
payment in the form of money, goods, services, or other benefit.
(1-c) "Information content provider" means any person
or entity that is wholly or partly responsible for the creation or
development of information provided through the Internet or any
other interactive computer service.
(3) In SECTION 3.01 of the bill, in amended Section 43.01,
Penal Code (conference committee report, page 14, lines 7 and 13),
redesignate as Subdivisions (1-d) and (1-e), respectively, the
subdivisions of that section in which "Interactive computer
service" and "Internet" are defined.
(4) In SECTION 3.02 of the bill, in added Section 43.031(a),
Penal Code (conference committee report, page 14, line 20), between
"interactive computer service" and "with the intent", insert "or
information content provider, or operates as an information content
provider,".
(5) In SECTION 3.02 of the bill, in added Section 43.041(a),
Penal Code (conference committee report, page 15, line 7), between
"interactive computer service" and "with the intent", insert "or
information content provider, or operates as an information content
provider,".