By Uher H.B. No. 955 76R3720 MLS-D 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.