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.