By Farrar                                       H.B. No. 3010

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the reporting of protective orders.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 71.18(a) and (b), Family Code, are

 1-5     amended to read as  follows:

 1-6           (a)  In order to insure that officers responding to calls are

 1-7     aware of the existence and terms of protective orders issued under

 1-8     this chapter, each county clerk shall forward to the Texas Crime

 1-9     Information Center [municipal police department, constable, and

1-10     sheriff shall  establish procedures within the department or office

1-11     to provide adequate information or access to information for law

1-12     enforcement officers of] the names of persons protected by order

1-13     issued under this chapter and of persons to whom protective orders

1-14     are directed.

1-15           (b)  The county clerk shall forward to the Texas Crime

1-16     Information Center information on the protective order [municipal

1-17     police department,  constable, or sheriff may enter the protective

1-18     order in the department's, constable's, or sheriff's computer

1-19     record of outstanding warrants] as notice that the order has been

1-20     issued and is currently in effect.  On notification by a clerk of a

1-21     court that the court has vacated or dismissed the order, the county

1-22     clerk shall notify the Texas Crime Information Center to remove the

1-23     order from the Texas Crime Information Center's [municipal police

1-24     department, constable, or sheriff shall remove the order from the

 2-1     department's, constable's, or sheriff's computer] record of

 2-2     outstanding warrants.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  The heading of Section 71.18, Family Code, is

 2-4     amended to read as follows:

 2-5           Sec. 71.18.  DUTIES OF COUNTY CLERKS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

 2-6     AGENCIES.

 2-7           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-8           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-9     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.