Bill Text: TX HB2623 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the requirements for a change of name for a person with a final felony conviction or a person required to register as a sex offender.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-25 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2623 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2623-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2623 |
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relating to the requirements for a change of name for a person with | ||
a final felony conviction or a person required to register as a sex | ||
offender. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 45.103, Family Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) A court may order a change of name under this subchapter | ||
for a person with a final felony conviction if: | ||
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(a), the person has: | ||
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the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or completed a period of | ||
community supervision or juvenile probation ordered by a court and | ||
not less than two years have passed from the date of the receipt of | ||
discharge or completion of community supervision or juvenile | ||
probation; or | ||
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(2) the person is requesting to change the person's | ||
name to the primary name used in the person's criminal history | ||
record information. | ||
(c) A court may order a change of name under this subchapter | ||
for a person subject to the registration requirements of Chapter | ||
62, Code of Criminal Procedure, if the person: | ||
(1) meets [ |
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Subsection (a) or is requesting to change the person's name to the | ||
primary name used in the person's criminal history record | ||
information; and | ||
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the person has notified the appropriate local law enforcement | ||
authority of the proposed name change. | ||
(d) In this section: | ||
(1) "Criminal history record information" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 411.082, Government Code. | ||
(2) "Local [ |
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authority" has the meaning assigned by Article 62.001, Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 45.103, Family Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to a petition for a change of name that is filed on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. A petition filed before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | ||
the date the petition was filed, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2623 was passed by the House on April | ||
30, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2623 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |