By:  Turner                                           S.B. No. 1574
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the requirement of notice for temporary restraining
    1-2  orders.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 65, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 65.017 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 65.017.  NOTICE REQUIRED FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
    1-7  ORDERS.  No temporary restraining order shall be issued against the
    1-8  state, any state agency, or any state official without notice.  A
    1-9  notice of intent to seek a temporary restraining order against the
   1-10  ste, any state agency, or any state official shall be provided to
   1-11  the Office of the Attorney General at least 2 calendar days before
   1-12  any temporary restraining order is sought.  The notice of intent to
   1-13  seek a temporary restraining order shall comply with the
   1-14  requirements of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure relating to the
   1-15  methods of filing and serving pleadings and motions.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-17  a cause of action that accrues on or after the effective date of
   1-18  this Act.  A cause of action that accrues before the effective date
   1-19  of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the cause
   1-20  of action accrued, and that law is continued in effect for this
   1-21  purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act takes effect September
   1-23  1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  SEVERABILITY.  If any section, sentence, clause,
    2-2  or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
    2-3  invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
    2-4  it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
    2-5  have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
    2-6  the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
    2-7  declared invalid.
    2-8        SECTION 5.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-9  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.