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. 1-43 * * * * *