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.
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