S.B. No. 893

	AN ACT
	relating to certain conditions of, penalties for violating, and
	collection of information about protective orders issued in certain
	family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, or trafficking
	cases.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  The heading to Chapter 7A, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 7A.  PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR [CERTAIN] VICTIMS OF [TRAFFICKING
	OR] SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, STALKING, OR TRAFFICKING
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Article 7A.05, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(a)  In a protective order issued under this chapter, the
	court may:
	(1)  order the alleged offender to take action as
	specified by the court that the court determines is necessary or
	appropriate to prevent or reduce the likelihood of future harm to
	the applicant or a member of the applicant's family or household; or
	(2)  prohibit the alleged offender from:
	(A)  communicating:
	(i)  directly or indirectly with the
	applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household in a
	threatening or harassing manner; or
	(ii)  in any manner with the applicant or any
	member of the applicant's family or household except through the
	applicant's attorney or a person appointed by the court, if the
	court finds good cause for the prohibition;
	(B)  going to or near the residence, place of
	employment or business, or child-care facility or school of the
	applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household;
	(C)  engaging in conduct directed specifically
	toward the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or
	household, including following the person, that is reasonably
	likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass the
	person; and
	(D)  possessing a firearm, unless the alleged
	offender is a peace officer, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code,
	actively engaged in employment as a sworn, full-time paid employee
	of a state agency or political subdivision.
	SECTION 3.  Subsections (b) and (g), Section 411.042,
	Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The bureau of identification and records shall:
	(1)  procure and file for record photographs, pictures,
	descriptions, fingerprints, measurements, and other pertinent
	information of all persons arrested for or charged with a criminal
	offense or convicted of a criminal offense, regardless of whether
	the conviction is probated;
	(2)  collect information concerning the number and
	nature of offenses reported or known to have been committed in the
	state and the legal steps taken in connection with the offenses, and
	other information useful in the study of crime and the
	administration of justice, including information that enables the
	bureau to create a statistical breakdown of:
	(A)  offenses in which family violence was
	involved;
	(B)  offenses under Sections 22.011 and 22.021,
	Penal Code; and
	(C)  offenses under Sections 20A.02 and 43.05,
	Penal Code;
	(3)  make ballistic tests of bullets and firearms and
	chemical analyses of bloodstains, cloth, materials, and other
	substances for law enforcement officers of the state;
	(4)  cooperate with identification and crime records
	bureaus in other states and the United States Department of
	Justice;
	(5)  maintain a list of all previous background checks
	for applicants for any position regulated under Chapter 1702,
	Occupations Code, who have undergone a criminal history background
	check under Section 411.119, if the check indicates a Class B
	misdemeanor or equivalent offense or a greater offense;
	(6)  collect information concerning the number and
	nature of protective orders and all other pertinent information
	about all persons on active protective orders, including pertinent
	information about persons subject to conditions of bond imposed for
	the protection of the victim in any family violence, sexual assault
	or abuse, or stalking case.  Information in the law enforcement
	information system relating to an active protective order shall
	include:
	(A)  the name, sex, race, date of birth, personal
	descriptors, address, and county of residence of the person to whom
	the order is directed;
	(B)  any known identifying number of the person to
	whom the order is directed, including the person's social security
	number or driver's license number;
	(C)  the name and county of residence of the
	person protected by the order;
	(D)  the residence address and place of employment
	or business of the person protected by the order, unless that
	information is excluded from the order under Section 85.007, Family
	Code;
	(E)  the child-care facility or school where a
	child protected by the order normally resides or which the child
	normally attends, unless that information is excluded from the
	order under Section 85.007, Family Code;
	(F)  the relationship or former relationship
	between the person who is protected by the order and the person to
	whom the order is directed; [and]
	(G)  the conditions of bond imposed on the person
	to whom the order is directed, if any, for the protection of a
	victim in any family violence, sexual assault or abuse, or stalking
	case; and
	(H)  the date the order expires;
	(7)  grant access to criminal history record
	information in the manner authorized under Subchapter F;
	(8)  collect and disseminate information regarding
	offenders with mental impairments in compliance with Chapter 614,
	Health and Safety Code; and
	(9)  record data and maintain a state database for a
	computerized criminal history record system and computerized
	juvenile justice information system that serves:
	(A)  as the record creation point for criminal
	history record information and juvenile justice information
	maintained by the state; and
	(B)  as the control terminal for the entry of
	records, in accordance with federal law and regulations, federal
	executive orders, and federal policy, into the federal database
	maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
	(g)  The department may adopt reasonable rules under this
	section relating to:
	(1)  law enforcement information systems maintained by
	the department;
	(2)  the collection, maintenance, and correction of
	records;
	(3)  reports of criminal history information submitted
	to the department;
	(4)  active protective orders [issued under Title 4,
	Family Code,] and reporting procedures that ensure that information
	relating to the issuance and dismissal of an active protective
	order [and to the dismissal of an active protective order] is
	reported to the local law enforcement agency at the time of the
	order's issuance or dismissal and entered by the local law
	enforcement agency in the state's law enforcement information
	system;
	(5)  the collection of information described by
	Subsection (h); [and]
	(6)  a system for providing criminal history record
	information through the criminal history clearinghouse under
	Section 411.0845; and
	(7)  active conditions of bond imposed on a defendant
	for the protection of a victim in any family violence, sexual
	assault or abuse, or stalking case, and reporting procedures that
	ensure that information relating to the issuance, modification, or
	removal of the conditions of bond is reported, at the time of the
	issuance, modification, or removal, to:
	(A)  the victim or, if the victim is deceased, a
	close relative of the victim; and
	(B)  the local law enforcement agency for entry by
	the local law enforcement agency in the state's law enforcement
	information system.
	SECTION 4.  The heading to Section 25.07, Penal Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 25.07.  VIOLATION OF CERTAIN COURT ORDERS OR CONDITIONS
	OF BOND IN A FAMILY VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, OR STALKING
	CASE.
	SECTION 5.  Subsection (a), Section 25.07, Penal Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if, in violation of a
	condition of bond set in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse,
	or stalking case and related to the safety of a [the] victim or the
	safety of the community, an order issued under Article 17.292, Code
	of Criminal Procedure, an order issued under Section 6.504, Family
	Code, Chapter 83, Family Code, if the temporary ex parte order has
	been served on the person, or Chapter 85, Family Code, or an order
	issued by another jurisdiction as provided by Chapter 88, Family
	Code, the person knowingly or intentionally:
	(1)  commits family violence or an act in furtherance
	of an offense under Section 22.011, 22.021, or 42.072;
	(2)  communicates:
	(A)  directly with a protected individual or a
	member of the family or household in a threatening or harassing
	manner;
	(B)  a threat through any person to a protected
	individual or a member of the family or household; or
	(C)  in any manner with the protected individual
	or a member of the family or household except through the person's
	attorney or a person appointed by the court, if the violation is of
	an order described by this subsection and the order prohibits any
	communication with a protected individual or a member of the family
	or household;
	(3)  goes to or near any of the following places as
	specifically described in the order or condition of bond:
	(A)  the residence or place of employment or
	business of a protected individual or a member of the family or
	household; or
	(B)  any child care facility, residence, or school
	where a child protected by the order or condition of bond normally
	resides or attends;
	(4)  possesses a firearm; or
	(5)  harms, threatens, or interferes with the care,
	custody, or control of a pet, companion animal, or assistance
	animal that is possessed by a person protected by the order.
	SECTION 6.  Subsection (b), Section 25.07, Penal Code, is
	amended by adding Subdivisions (4), (5), and (6) to read as follows:
	(4)  "Sexual abuse" means any act as described by
	Section 21.02 or 21.11.
	(5)  "Sexual assault" means any act as described by
	Section 22.011 or 22.021.
	(6)  "Stalking" means any conduct that constitutes an
	offense under Section 42.072.
	SECTION 7.  The heading to Section 38.112, Penal Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 38.112.  VIOLATION OF PROTECTIVE ORDER ISSUED ON BASIS
	OF SEXUAL ASSAULT OR ABUSE, STALKING, OR TRAFFICKING.
	SECTION 8.  Subsection (a), Section 38.112, Penal Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a)  A person commits an offense if, in violation of an order
	issued under Chapter 7A, Code of Criminal Procedure, the person
	knowingly:
	(1)  communicates:
	(A)  directly or indirectly with the applicant or
	any member of the applicant's family or household in a threatening
	or harassing manner; or
	(B)  in any manner with the applicant or any
	member of the applicant's family or household except through the
	applicant's attorney or a person appointed by the court;
	(2)  goes to or near the residence, place of employment
	or business, or child-care facility or school of the applicant or
	any member of the applicant's family or household; or
	(3)  possesses a firearm.
	SECTION 9.  The changes in law made by this Act in amending
	Sections 25.07 and 38.112, Penal Code, apply only to an offense
	committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An offense
	committed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
	law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this
	subsection, an offense was committed before the effective date of
	this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
	SECTION 10.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 893 passed the Senate on
	April 25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
	the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 22, 2013, by the
	following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 893 passed the House, with
	amendment, on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134,
	Nays 0, two present not voting.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	______________________________
	Governor