Bill Text: TX SB581 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-15 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB581 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB581-Comm_Sub.html
By: Whitmire, et al. | S.B. No. 581 | |
(Alvarado) | ||
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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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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, 2017. |