By Shapiro S.B. No. 244
74R2180 PEP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to court orders to grant a name change to certain persons
1-3 convicted of a criminal offense.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 32.22(b), Family Code, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (b) A court may order a change of name for a person finally
1-8 convicted of a felony if, in addition to the requirements of
1-9 Subsection (a), the person has:
1-10 (1) received a certificate of discharge by the pardons
1-11 and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or
1-12 completed a period of community supervision <probation> ordered by
1-13 a court and at least five <two> calendar years have elapsed from
1-14 the date of the receipt of discharge or completion of community
1-15 supervision <probation>; or
1-16 (2) been pardoned.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.