1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 685
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 22, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 685 By: Brown
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the delivery of protective orders to certain affected
1-11 persons.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Section 85.042, Family Code, is amended by
1-14 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-15 follows:
1-16 (d) The applicant or the applicant's attorney shall provide
1-17 in writing to the clerk of the court:
1-18 (1) the name, facsimile number, or electronic mail
1-19 address, if any, and mailing address of each law enforcement
1-20 agency, child-care facility, and school to which the clerk is
1-21 required to send [mail] a copy of the order under this section; and
1-22 (2) any other information required under Section
1-23 411.042(b)(5), Government Code.
1-24 (e) A copy of an order sent under Subsection (a) or (b)
1-25 shall be sent by mail, facsimile transmission, or electronic mail.
1-26 A written verification of the receipt of the facsimile transmission
1-27 or electronic mail by the clerk shall be placed with papers of the
1-28 court.
1-29 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-34 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-35 passage, and it is so enacted.
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