By Goodman H.B. No. 308 75R1843 SKB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority to issue protective orders. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 71.01(b)(1), Family Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (1) "Court" means the district court, court of 1-7 domestic relations, juvenile court having the jurisdiction of a 1-8 district court, or other court expressly given jurisdiction of a 1-9 suit under this subtitle, a constitutional county court, or a 1-10 statutory county court. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997, and 1-12 applies only to an application for a protective order made on or 1-13 after that date. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.