STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Sex Offender

Registration

Not later than the seventh day after the date on which the person begins to attend school, a person required to register under Code

of Criminal Procedure 62.152 or any other provision of Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 62, who is a student at a public institution of higher education, including a college district, shall report that fact to:

1. The authority for campus security for the institution; or

2. If an authority for campus security for the institution does not exist and the person is otherwise required by Chapter 62,

Code of Criminal Procedure, to register at the authority the local law enforcement authority of:

a. The municipality in which the institution is located; or

b. The county in which the institution is located, if the institution is not located in a municipality.

The person described above shall provide the authority for campus security or the local law enforcement authority all information the

person is required to provide under Code of Criminal Procedure 62.051(c). The person shall notify the authority for campus security

or the local law enforcement authority not later than the seventh day after the date of termination of the person’s status as a student

at the institution.

The authority for campus security or the local law enforcement authority shall promptly forward to the administrative office of the institution any information received from the person and any information received from the Texas Department of Public Safety under

Code of Criminal Procedure 62.005.

This section does not impose the requirements of public notification or notification to public or private primary or secondary schools

on an authority for campus security; or a local law enforcement authority, if those requirements relate to a person about whom the authority is not otherwise required by Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 62 to make notifications.

[See also GCA]

Code of Criminal Procedure 62.153