By Oliveira                                           H.B. No. 2788
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2788:
          By Tillery                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2788
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to notice of service by the secretary of state to certain
    1-3  nonresidents.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 17.045(a) and (d), Civil Practice and
    1-6  Remedies Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  If the secretary of state is served with duplicate
    1-8  copies of process for a nonresident, he shall require a statement
    1-9  from the party requesting service of the name and address of the
   1-10  nonresident's home or home office where the party requesting
   1-11  service reasonably believes the nonresident may be served with
   1-12  process.  The secretary of state <and> shall immediately mail a
   1-13  copy of the process to the nonresident at the address specified in
   1-14  the statement from the party requesting service.
   1-15        (d)  All <The> process or notice under this section must be
   1-16  sent by registered mail or by certified mail, return receipt
   1-17  requested.  If the nonresident does not take possession of the
   1-18  process or notice, the process or notice shall be considered to
   1-19  have been received on proof that reasonably indicates that the
   1-20  nonresident has, not later than 30 days before the date of the
   1-21  default judgment, actually or constructively received knowledge of
   1-22  the suit against the nonresident.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  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  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.