By: Uresti  S.B. No. 1022
         (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2015; March 11, 2015, read
  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 6, 2015,
  reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
  following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 6, 2015, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1022 By:  Nelson
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to an unsworn declaration made by a private process server
  in the performance of the server's job duties.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 132.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, is amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection
  (g) to read as follows:
         (d)  Except as provided by Subsections (e), [and] (f), and
  (g), an unsworn declaration made under this section must include a
  jurat in substantially the following form:
               "My name is __________ _________ ____________, my
                              (First)     (Middle)     (Last)
         date  of birth is _________________, and my  address is
         _____________,  ____________,  _________,   _________,
            (Street)        (City)            (State)       (Zip Code)
         and __________________. I  declare  under  penalty  of
                  (Country)
         perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
               Executed in _______ County, State of ________, on
  the ________ day of ________, ________.
                               (Month)   (Year)
  ____________________
  Declarant"
         (g)  An unsworn declaration made under this section by a
  private process server in the performance of the server's job
  duties must include a jurat in substantially the following form:
               "My name is ___________  __________  ___________,
                              (First)       (Middle)        (Last)
         and I am a private process server with the following
  Judicial Branch Certification Commission
  identification number: __________________. I am
  executing this declaration as part of my assigned
  duties and responsibilities.  I declare under penalty
  of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
               Executed in _____________ County, State of
  _________, on the _____ day of ________, _______.
                                           (Month)    (Year)
  ____________________
  Declarant"
         SECTION 2.  Section 132.001(g), Civil Practice and Remedies
  Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an unsworn declaration
  executed on or after the effective date of this Act. An unsworn
  declaration executed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
  of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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