By Uher                                                H.B. No. 955
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                                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.