1-1 By: Dunnam (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro) H.B. No. 1462 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 5, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 5, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Wentworth 1-7 Amend H.B. No. 1462 in SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended 1-8 Section 153.076, Family Code (house engrossment, page 2, between 1-9 lines 3 and 4), by inserting a new Subsection (d) to read as 1-10 follows: 1-11 (d) A person commits an offense if the person fails to 1-12 provide notice in the manner required by Subsections (b) and (c). 1-13 An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor. 1-14 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-15 AN ACT 1-16 relating to the notification of certain persons of the marriage of 1-17 the person's former spouse. 1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-19 SECTION 1. Section 153.076, Family Code, is amended to read 1-20 as follows: 1-21 Sec. 153.076. PARENTS' DUTY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. (a) If 1-22 both parents are appointed as conservators of the child, the court 1-23 shall order that each parent has a duty to inform the other parent 1-24 in a timely manner of significant information concerning the 1-25 health, education, and welfare of the child. 1-26 (b) If both parents are appointed as conservators of a 1-27 child, the court shall order that each parent has the duty to 1-28 inform the other parent if the parent marries or intends to marry a 1-29 person who the parent knows: 1-30 (1) is registered as a sex offender under Chapter 62, 1-31 Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter 668, Acts of the 1-32 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997; or 1-33 (2) is currently charged with an offense for which on 1-34 conviction the person would be required to register under that 1-35 chapter. 1-36 (c) The notice required to be made under Subsection (b) must 1-37 be made as soon as practicable but not later than the 10th day 1-38 after the date the marriage occurs. The notice must include a 1-39 description of the offense that is the basis of the person's 1-40 requirement to register as a sex offender or of the offense with 1-41 which the person is charged. 1-42 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-43 applies to a court order providing for possession of or access to a 1-44 child rendered on or after that date. A court order rendered 1-45 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 1-46 effect on the date the order was rendered, and the former law is 1-47 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-48 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-49 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-53 * * * * *