By Uher H.B. No. 955 76R14498 MCK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to providing parties with notice of the attorney of record 1-3 representing the office of attorney general. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 402.029 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 402.029. NOTICE OF ATTORNEY OF RECORD. (a) This 1-8 section applies to each child support case in which the attorney 1-9 general provides services. 1-10 (b) The attorney general shall provide each party or the 1-11 party's attorney of record with written notice of the name, 1-12 address, telephone number, and facsimile number of the assistant 1-13 attorney general who is the attorney of record in the case. 1-14 (c) Not later than the seventh day after the date of a 1-15 change, the attorney general shall provide each party or the 1-16 party's attorney of record with written notice of a change in the 1-17 name, address, telephone number, or facsimile number of the 1-18 assistant attorney general who is the attorney of record in the 1-19 case. 1-20 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies to all cases: 1-22 (1) filed on or after the effective date of this Act; 1-23 or 1-24 (2) pending on the effective date of this Act and in 2-1 which the hearing, trial, or any new trial or retrial following 2-2 motion, appeal, or otherwise begins on or after that date. 2-3 (b) In a case filed before the effective date of this Act, a 2-4 hearing, trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on the 2-5 effective date of this Act is governed by the applicable law in 2-6 effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in 2-7 effect for that purpose. 2-8 SECTION 3. 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.