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.