By:  Goodman                                          H.B. No. 1553
       73R5320 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the issuance of a protective order for a party to a
    1-3  suit for the dissolution of a marriage.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 3.581(a) and (b), Family Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  On the motion of any party to a suit for divorce or
    1-8  annulment or to declare a marriage void, the court may issue a
    1-9  protective order as provided by Sections 71.10(a), 71.10(b),
   1-10  71.10(d)(1) and (4) <71.10(c)(1) and (3)>, 71.11(b) and (c),
   1-11  71.111, 71.14, and 71.16 of this code.
   1-12        (b)  Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, an
   1-13  <An> order may be made under this section only after notice to the
   1-14  party alleged to have committed family violence and a hearing.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-16  applies only to an application for a protective order made on or
   1-17  after that date.  An application for a protective order made before
   1-18  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
   1-19  the time the application was made, and the former law is continued
   1-20  in effect for that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.