By Dunnam H.B. No. 1462 76R1647 JMM-D 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.