Amend SB 116 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 2 of the bill, strike amended Section 71.0021(a), Family Code (page 1, lines 8-17), and substitute the following:
(a) "Dating violence" means an act, other than a defensive measure to protect oneself, by an actor [individual] that:
(1) is committed against a victim:
(A) [another individual] with whom the actor [that person] has or has had a dating relationship; or
(B) because of the victim's marriage to or dating relationship with an individual with whom the actor is or has been in a dating relationship or marriage; and
(2) [that] is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault or that is a threat that reasonably places the victim [individual] in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault [, but does not include defensive measures to protect oneself].
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumber the SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
SECTION ____. Section 82.002(b), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) With regard to family violence under Section 71.004(3), an application for a protective order to protect the applicant may be filed by:
(1) an adult member of the dating relationship; or
(2) an adult member of the marriage, if the victim is or was married as described by Section 71.0021(a)(1)(B).
(3) In SECTION 3 of the bill (page 1, lines 18-19), strike "Section 71.0021," and substitute "Sections 71.0021 and 82.002,".