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LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE, 87TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
March 29, 2021
TO:
Honorable Jeff Leach, Chair, House Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB2702 by Landgraf (Relating to the protective order registry maintained by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System and the removal of a vacated protective order from the registry.), As Introduced
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
This bill would amend the Government Code to require the clerk of a court issuing protective orders and magistrate's orders of emergency protection issued due to sexual assault or abuse, stalking, trafficking, or other harm to the applicant, to enter the application and order into the Protective Order Registry established by Texas Government Code Section 72.151. In addition, the bill would require the clerk to remove vacated orders from the Protective Order Registry and provides that the vacated order information would not be publicly accessible on the registry website.
Based on information provided by the Office of Court Administration, no significant fiscal impact to the state court system is anticipated as a result from implementing the provisions of the bill.
Local Government Impact
No significant fiscal implication to units of local government is anticipated.