Art. 65.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this chapter:
(1)  "Authority for campus security" means the authority with primary law enforcement jurisdiction over property under the control of a public or private institution of higher education.
(2)  "Centralized registration authority" means a mandatory countywide registration location designated under Article 65.005.
(3)  "Criminal justice official" means a chief of police of a municipality, sheriff, constable, county attorney with criminal jurisdiction, district attorney, or criminal district attorney.
(4)  "Department" means the Department of Public Safety.
(5)  "Extrajurisdictional registrant" means a person who is required to register as a terrorist under the laws of another state with which the department has entered into a reciprocal registration agreement.
(6)  "Local law enforcement authority" means the office of the chief of police of a municipality, the office of the sheriff of a county in this state, or a centralized registration authority.
(7)  "Officer" means a juvenile probation officer, community supervision and corrections department officer, or parole officer.
(8)  "Penal institution" means:
(A)  a confinement facility operated by or under contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
(B)  a confinement facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department;
(C)  a juvenile secure pre-adjudication or post-adjudication facility operated by or under a local juvenile probation department; or 
(D)  a county jail.
(9)  "Released" means discharged, paroled, placed in a nonsecure community program for juvenile offenders, or placed on juvenile probation, community supervision, or mandatory supervision.
(10)  "Reportable conviction or adjudication" means a conviction or adjudication, including an adjudication of delinquent conduct or deferred adjudication, that, regardless of the pendency of an appeal, is a conviction for or an adjudication for committing:
(A)  an offense under Chapter 76, Penal Code; 
(B)  an offense described by 18 U.S.C. Section 2332b(g)(5);
(C)  an offense under 18 U.S.C. Section 2332f, 2332g, 2332h, or 2332i; or 
(D)  an offense against the Uniform Code of Military Justice, against a state or territory of the United States, or against a foreign country, where the offense contains elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense described by this subdivision.
(11)  "Terrorist offender" means a person who has a reportable conviction or adjudication. 
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 935 (S.B. 1518), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.