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 any case in which the office of the attorney
 1-9     general represents a  party.
1-10           (b)  The office of the attorney general shall provide each
1-11     party or the party's attorney of record with written notice of the
1-12     name, telephone number, and facsimile number of the assistant
1-13     attorney general who is the attorney of record in the case.
1-14           (c)  The office of the attorney general shall provide each
1-15     party or the party's attorney of record with written notice of any
1-16     change in the information required under Subsection (b).
1-17           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-18     applies to all cases:
1-19                 (1)  filed on or after the effective date of this Act;
1-20     or
1-21                 (2)  pending on the effective date of this Act and in
1-22     which the hearing, trial, or any new trial or retrial following
1-23     motion, appeal, or otherwise begins on or after that date.
1-24           (b)  In a case filed before the effective date of this Act, a
 2-1     hearing, trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on the
 2-2     effective date of this Act is governed by the applicable law in
 2-3     effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in
 2-4     effect for that purpose.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.