By: Nelson, et al. S.B. No. 23
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the duration of certain emergency protection orders
1-2 issued by magistrates.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (i), Article 17.292, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (i) An order for emergency protection issued under this
1-7 article is effective on issuance, and the defendant shall be served
1-8 a copy of the order in open court. An order for emergency
1-9 protection issued under this article remains in effect until the
1-10 61st [31st] day after the date of issuance.
1-11 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-12 to the duration of an order for emergency protection issued on or
1-13 after the effective date of this Act. The duration of an order for
1-14 emergency protection issued before the effective date of this Act
1-15 is covered by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the
1-16 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-17 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.