By Dutton                                             H.B. No. 1817
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the retrieval of personal property after the entry of
    1-3  certain temporary orders in a suit for divorce.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3.581, Family Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsections (g) and (h) to read as follows:
    1-7        (g)  If a protective order issued under this section grants
    1-8  exclusive possession of the residence of the parties to one party
    1-9  or requires a party to vacate a residence, the court shall include
   1-10  in the order a provision allowing the party excluded from the
   1-11  residence to remove that party's personal property from the
   1-12  residence.  The order shall include the terms under which the party
   1-13  may enter the residence and shall describe property that may be
   1-14  removed under the order.  An order under this subsection may not
   1-15  permit the party excluded from the residence to exercise the
   1-16  party's right to remove personal property after the 7th day after
   1-17  the date on which the order is issued.
   1-18        (h)  For purposes of this section, property is defined as
   1-19  personal effects.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-21  applies only to a protective order in a suit for dissolution of a
   1-22  marriage entered on or after that date.  A protective order issued
   1-23  before that date is governed by the law in effect at the time the
   1-24  order was entered, and the former law is continued in effect for
    2-1  that purpose.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.