By Farrar H.B. No. 3010
75R1739 SKB-F
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.