1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                     H.B. No. 955
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to providing parties with notice of the attorney of record
 1-9     representing the office of attorney general.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 402.029 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 402.029.  NOTICE OF ATTORNEY OF RECORD.  (a)  This
1-14     section applies to each child support case in which the  attorney
1-15     general provides services.
1-16           (b)  The attorney general shall provide each party or the
1-17     party's attorney of record with written notice of the name,
1-18     address, telephone number, and facsimile number of the assistant
1-19     attorney general who is the attorney of record in the case.
1-20           (c)  Not later than the seventh day after the date of a
1-21     change, the attorney general shall provide each party or the
1-22     party's attorney of record with written notice of a change in the
1-23     name, address, telephone number, or facsimile number of the
1-24     assistant attorney general who is the attorney of record in the
1-25     case.
1-26           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-27     applies to all cases:
1-28                 (1)  filed on or after the effective date of this Act;
1-29     or
1-30                 (2)  pending on the effective date of this Act and in
1-31     which the hearing, trial, or any new trial or retrial following
1-32     motion, appeal, or otherwise begins on or after that date.
1-33           (b)  In a case filed before the effective date of this Act, a
1-34     hearing, trial, new trial, or retrial that is in progress on the
1-35     effective date of this Act is governed by the applicable law in
1-36     effect immediately before that date, and that law is continued in
1-37     effect for that purpose.
1-38           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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