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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