By Rhodes H.B. No. 1192 75R4799 SKB-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties of law enforcement agencies to enforce 1-3 protective orders. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 71.18(c), Family Code, as added by 1-6 Section 18, Chapter 1024, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular 1-7 Session, 1995, and Section 71.18(d), Family Code, are amended to 1-8 read as follows: 1-9 (c) On the request of an applicant obtaining a temporary 1-10 order that excludes the respondent from the respondent's residence, 1-11 the court that granted the temporary order shall provide a written 1-12 order to the sheriff, constable, or chief of police to provide a 1-13 law enforcement officer from the department of the sheriff, 1-14 constable, or chief of police: 1-15 (1) to accompany the applicant to the residence 1-16 covered by the order; 1-17 (2) to inform the respondent that the court has 1-18 ordered that the respondent be excluded from the residence; 1-19 (3) to protect the applicant while the applicant takes 1-20 possession of the residence; and 1-21 (4) if the respondent refuses to vacate the residence, 1-22 to protect the applicant while the applicant takes possession of 1-23 the applicant's necessary personal property. 1-24 (d) On the request of an applicant obtaining a final order 2-1 that excludes the respondent from the respondent's residence, the 2-2 court that granted the final order shall provide a written order to 2-3 the sheriff, constable, or chief of police to provide a law 2-4 enforcement officer from the department of the sheriff, constable, 2-5 or chief of police: 2-6 (1) to accompany the applicant to the residence 2-7 covered by the order; 2-8 (2) to inform the respondent that the court has 2-9 ordered that the respondent be excluded from the residence; 2-10 (3) to protect the applicant while the applicant takes 2-11 possession of the residence and the respondent takes possession of 2-12 the respondent's necessary personal property; and 2-13 (4) if the respondent refuses to vacate the residence: 2-14 (A) to remove the respondent from the residence; 2-15 and 2-16 (B) to arrest the respondent for violating the 2-17 court order. 2-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.