By Dutton H.B. No. 1817 74R6731 JMM-D 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 Subsection (g) 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 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-19 applies only to a protective order in a suit for dissolution of a 1-20 marriage entered on or after that date. A protective order issued 1-21 before that date is governed by the law in effect at the time the 1-22 order was entered, 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. 2-5 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-6 Amend H.B. 1817 by adding subsection (h) as follows: "For 2-7 purposes of this section, property is defined as personal effects." 2-8 Van de Putte