H.B. No. 1691
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the name change of an adult.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 32.21(b), Family Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 (b) The petition must be verified and must include each of
1-7 the following or a reasonable explanation of why one or more of the
1-8 following is not included:
1-9 (1) the petitioner's:
1-10 (A) full true name;
1-11 (B) sex;
1-12 (C) race;
1-13 (D) date of birth;
1-14 (E) driver's license number of any license
1-15 issued within the past 10 years;
1-16 (F) social security number; and
1-17 (G) FBI number or SID number, if known, or any
1-18 other known reference number to a criminal history record system;
1-19 (2) any offense charged against the petitioner above
1-20 the grade of Class C misdemeanor; and
1-21 (3) the case number and court of offense if a warrant
1-22 was issued or if a charging instrument was filed or presented<;>
1-23 <(4) a certified copy of any docket sheet, warrant,
2-1 charging instrument, complaint, motion to dismiss, plea, verdict,
2-2 judgment, sentence, or probation order filed in any cause arising
2-3 out of a transaction under Subdivision (3); and>
2-4 <(5) a completed fingerprint card on a form approved
2-5 by the Department of Public Safety>.
2-6 SECTION 2. Sections 32.21(c) and (d), Family Code, are
2-7 repealed.
2-8 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-9 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.