By: Ellis S.B. No. 804 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to developing a standard format for protective orders. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. (a) The Department of Public Safety of the State 1-4 of Texas shall collaborate with the Texas Council on Family 1-5 Violence and the Texas District and County Attorneys Association to 1-6 develop a standard format for protective orders issued under Title 1-7 4, Family Code. 1-8 (b) In developing the standard format for protective orders 1-9 as required by Subsection (a) of this section, the Department of 1-10 Public Safety of the State of Texas shall consider the standard 1-11 formats for protective orders adopted by other states. 1-12 (c) To the maximum extent possible, the standard format for 1-13 a protective order developed under Subsection (a) of this section 1-14 must be concise and easily understandable to a peace officer who 1-15 attempts to enforce the order. 1-16 SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2000, the director of 1-17 the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas shall make a 1-18 recommendation to the 77th Legislature regarding a standard format 1-19 for protective orders issued under Title 4, Family Code. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.