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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 84(R)

Senate Bill 737

Senate Author:  Rodríguez

Effective:  9-1-15

House Sponsor:  Moody


            Senate Bill 737 amends provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, Family Code, and Government Code relating to certain protective orders and magistrate's emergency protection orders. Among other provisions, the bill authorizes a magistrate to issue an emergency protection order for an offense of trafficking of persons and continuous trafficking of persons. The bill imposes a deadline on a magistrate's requirement to notify the appropriate law enforcement agency that an emergency protection order has been issued and requires any minimum distance a person subject to a protective order is required to maintain from the protected places or persons to be entered into the statewide law enforcement information system.