By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 1141
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to public access to the names and addresses of parties in
 1-3     civil actions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 30.015(a), Civil Practice and Remedies
 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  In a civil action filed in a district court, county
 1-8     court, statutory county court, or statutory probate court, each
 1-9     party or the party's attorney must provide the clerk of the court
1-10     with written notice of the party's name and current residence or
1-11     business address.
1-12           SECTION 2.  Section 30.015(g), Civil Practice and Remedies
1-13     Code, is repealed.
1-14           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies only to suits filed on or after the effective date of this
1-16     Act.  A suit filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-17     governed by the law in effect when the suit was filed, and that law
1-18     is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.