By Thompson, Danburg H.B. No. 816
74R3200 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain acts of family violence for which a protective
1-3 order may be issued.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 71.01(b)(2), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (2) "Family violence" means:
1-8 (A) an act by a member of a family or household
1-9 against another member of the family or household that is intended
1-10 to result in physical harm, bodily injury, <or> assault, or sexual
1-11 assault or that is a threat that reasonably places the member in
1-12 fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, <or> assault, or
1-13 sexual assault, excluding the reasonable discipline of a child by a
1-14 person having that duty; or
1-15 (B) abuse, as that term is defined by Sections
1-16 34.012(1)(C), (E), and (G) of this code, by a member of a family or
1-17 household toward a child of the family or household.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-19 applies only to an application for a protective order made on or
1-20 after that date. An application for a protective order made before
1-21 that date is governed by the law in effect at the time the
1-22 application was made, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-23 that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.