By Dunnam                                             H.B. No. 1462
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the notification of certain persons of the marriage of
 1-3     the person's former spouse.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 153.076, Family Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 153.076.  PARENTS' DUTY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION.  (a)  If
 1-8     both parents are appointed as conservators of the child, the court
 1-9     shall order  that each parent has a duty to inform the other parent
1-10     in a timely manner of significant information concerning the
1-11     health, education, and welfare of the child.
1-12           (b)  If both parents are appointed as conservators of a
1-13     child, the court shall order that each parent has the duty to
1-14     inform the other parent if the parent marries or intends to marry a
1-15     person who the parent knows:
1-16                 (1)  is registered as a sex offender under Chapter 62,
1-17     Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 668, Acts of the
1-18     75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997; or
1-19                 (2)  is currently charged with an offense for which on
1-20     conviction the person would be required to register under that
1-21     chapter.
1-22           (c)  The notice required to be made under Subsection (b) must
1-23     be made as soon as practicable but not later than the 10th day
1-24     after the date the marriage occurs.  The notice must include a
 2-1     description of the offense that is the basis of the person's
 2-2     requirement to register as a sex offender or of the offense with
 2-3     which the person is charged.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
 2-5     applies to a court order providing for possession of or access to a
 2-6     child rendered on or after that date.  A court order rendered
 2-7     before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
 2-8     effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is
 2-9     continued in effect for that purpose.
2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.