By Brown                                               S.B. No. 685
         76R3233 CMR-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the delivery of protective orders to certain affected
 1-3     persons.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 85.042, Family Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (d)  The applicant or the applicant's attorney shall provide
 1-9     to the clerk of the court:
1-10                 (1)  the name, facsimile number, if any, electronic
1-11     mail address, if any, and mailing address of each law enforcement
1-12     agency, child-care facility, and school to which the clerk is
1-13     required to send [mail] a copy of the order under this section; and
1-14                 (2)  any other information required under Section
1-15     411.042(b)(5), Government Code.
1-16           (e)  A copy of an order sent under Subsection (a) or (b) may
1-17     be sent by mail, facsimile transmission, or electronic mail.  A
1-18     copy sent by electronic mail complies with the requirements of
1-19     Subsection (a) or (b) if the copy is a substantial copy and the
1-20     electronic mail contains language describing the transmission as a
1-21     substantial copy.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.