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 up to
1-10     [until] the 61st [31st] day but not less than 31 days after the
1-11     date of issuance.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-13     to the duration of an order for emergency protection issued on or
1-14     after the effective date of this Act.  The duration of an order for
1-15     emergency protection issued before the effective date of this Act
1-16     is covered by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the
1-17     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 23 passed the Senate on
         March 9, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate concurred
         in House amendment on May 25, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 23 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 23, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor