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1-19     Code, is repealed.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.
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