§ 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.