Kuff - as you know, "Jessica's Law" consists of a package of bills, not just HB 8. There are enormous costs well beyond the direct public expenses of incarceration and monitoring. There is the larger cost to the rule of law - rights held inviolate since the Magna Carta - but apparently rights that can be taken away by whim of the Texas Legislature. This is a price that would be paid by all of us, for if basic constitutional protections like due process and prohibitions against ex post facto prosecutions and double jeopardy can be waived for one category of citizens, it can just as easily be waived for others. Getting tough on sex offenses should not come at the expense of our constitution.