By Chisum H.B. No. 13
75R227 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authorization of certain courts to issue a
1-3 protective order against family violence.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 71.01(b)(1), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (1) "Court" means the district court, court of
1-8 domestic relations, juvenile court having the jurisdiction of a
1-9 district court, or other court expressly given jurisdiction of a
1-10 suit under this subtitle or a [statutory] county court.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.