1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 23
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed November 9, 1998; January 26, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 1, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 1, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the duration of certain emergency protection orders
1-9 issued by magistrates.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (i), Article 17.292, Code of Criminal
1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (i) An order for emergency protection issued under this
1-14 article is effective on issuance, and the defendant shall be served
1-15 a copy of the order in open court. An order for emergency
1-16 protection issued under this article remains in effect until the
1-17 61st [31st] day after the date of issuance.
1-18 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-19 to the duration of an order for emergency protection issued on or
1-20 after the effective date of this Act. The duration of an order for
1-21 emergency protection issued before the effective date of this Act
1-22 is covered by the law in effect when the order was issued, and the
1-23 former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-25 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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