By: Whitmire, Garcia S.B. No. 581     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   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:                (1)[,] in addition to the requirements of Subsection   (a), the person has:                      (A) [(1)]  received a certificate of discharge by   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                      (B) [(2)]  been pardoned; or                (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[, in addition to] the requirements of   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                (2)[, the person] provides the court with proof that the   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 [subsection, "local] law enforcement   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.