1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 1141 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 4, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to public access to the names and addresses of parties in 1-9 civil actions. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 30.015(a), Civil Practice and Remedies 1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (a) In a civil action filed in a district court, county 1-14 court, statutory county court, or statutory probate court, each 1-15 party or the party's attorney must provide the clerk of the court 1-16 with written notice of the party's name and current residence or 1-17 business address. 1-18 SECTION 2. Section 30.015(g), Civil Practice and Remedies 1-19 Code, is repealed. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies only to suits filed on or after the effective date of this 1-22 Act. A suit filed before the effective date of this Act is 1-23 governed by the law in effect when the suit was filed, and that law 1-24 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-25 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *