Bill Text: TX HB2825 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a county to establish a centralized sex offender registration authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB2825 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2825-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2825 |
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relating to the authority of a county to establish a centralized sex | ||
offender registration authority. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 62.0045, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 62.0045. CENTRALIZED REGISTRATION AUTHORITY. (a) The | ||
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may, through interlocal agreement, designate the office of a chief | ||
of police of a municipality in that county to serve as a mandatory | ||
countywide registration location for persons subject to this | ||
chapter. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a | ||
person [ |
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registration and verification requirements of Articles [ |
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62.055 only with respect to the centralized registration authority | ||
for the county, regardless of whether the person resides in any | ||
municipality located in that county. If the person resides in a | ||
municipality, and the local law enforcement authority in the | ||
municipality does not serve as the person's centralized | ||
registration authority, the centralized registration authority, | ||
not later than the third day after the date the person registers or | ||
verifies registration or changes address with that authority, shall | ||
provide to the local law enforcement authority in that municipality | ||
notice of the person's registration, [ |
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registration, or change of address, as applicable, with the | ||
centralized registration authority. | ||
(c) This section does not affect a person's duty to register | ||
with secondary sex offender registries under this chapter, such as | ||
those described by Articles 62.059 and 62.153. | ||
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, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2825 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2825 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2825 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
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Governor |