Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 65.002 – Applicability of Chapter
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(a) This chapter applies only to a reportable conviction or adjudication occurring on or after January 1, 2024.
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the duties imposed on a person required to register under this chapter on the basis of a reportable conviction or adjudication, and the corresponding duties and powers of other entities in relation to the person required to register on the basis of that conviction or adjudication, are not affected by an appeal of the conviction or adjudication.
Terms Used In Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 65.002
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) If a conviction or adjudication that is the basis of a duty to register under this chapter is set aside on appeal by a court or if the person required to register under this chapter receives a pardon, the duties imposed on the person by this chapter and the corresponding duties and powers of other entities in relation to the person are terminated.