By: Brown S.B. No. 685
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the delivery of protective orders to certain affected
1-2 persons.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 85.042, Family Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (d) The applicant or the applicant's attorney shall provide
1-8 in writing to the clerk of the court:
1-9 (1) the name, facsimile number, or electronic mail
1-10 address, if any, and mailing address of each law enforcement
1-11 agency, child-care facility, and school to which the clerk is
1-12 required to send [mail] a copy of the order under this section; and
1-13 (2) any other information required under Section
1-14 411.042(b)(5), Government Code.
1-15 (e) A copy of an order sent under Subsection (a) or (b)
1-16 shall be sent by mail, facsimile transmission, or electronic mail.
1-17 A written verification of the receipt of the facsimile transmission
1-18 or electronic mail by the clerk shall be placed with papers of the
1-19 court.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.