By Brown                                               S.B. No. 283
          Substitute the following for S.B. No. 283:
          By Goodman                                         C.S.S.B. No. 283
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of certain prosecuting attorneys to apply
    1-3  for a protective order.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 71.04, Family Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The <county attorney or the criminal> district attorney
    1-8  is the prosecuting attorney responsible for filing applications
    1-9  under this chapter unless the<.  The> district attorney <may assume
   1-10  the responsibility by giving notice of that assumption to the
   1-11  county attorney.> transfers the responsibility to the county
   1-12  attorney in which case the county attorney shall be responsible for
   1-13  filing the applications.  The prosecuting attorney responsible for
   1-14  filing applications under this chapter shall provide notice of that
   1-15  responsibility to all law enforcement agencies within the
   1-16  jurisdiction of the prosecuting attorney.  The application is to be
   1-17  filed as provided by Article 5.06, Code of Criminal Procedure.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Article 5.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-19  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
   1-20        (c)  The prosecuting attorney having responsibility under
   1-21  Section 71.04(c), Family Code, for filing applications for
   1-22  protective orders under Chapter 71, Family Code, shall provide
   1-23  notice of that responsibility to all law enforcement agencies
   1-24  within the jurisdiction of the prosecuting attorney.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 4.  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.