By: Zaffirini, Bettencourt, West S.B. No. 578
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the confidentiality of certain personal information of
  an applicant for or a person protected by a protective order.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 82.011, Family Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         Sec. 82.011.  CONFIDENTIALITY OF CERTAIN INFORMATION. On
  request by an applicant, the court may protect the applicant's
  mailing address and county of residence by rendering an order:
               (1)  requiring the applicant to:
                     (A)  disclose the applicant's mailing address and
  county of residence to the court;
                     (B)  designate a person to receive on behalf of
  the applicant any notice or documents filed with the court related
  to the application; and
                     (C)  disclose the designated person's mailing
  address to the court;
               (2)  requiring the court clerk to:
                     (A)  strike the applicant's mailing address and
  county of residence from the public records of the court, if
  applicable; and
                     (B)  maintain a confidential record of the
  applicant's mailing address and county of residence for use only by
  the court; and
               (3)  prohibiting the release of the information to the
  respondent.
         SECTION 2.  Section 85.007(a), Family Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a)  On request by a person protected by an order or member of
  the family or household of a person protected by an order, the court
  may exclude from a protective order:
               (1)  the address, county of residence, and telephone
  number of[:
               [(1)]  a person protected by the order[, in which case
  the order shall state the county in which the person resides]; or
               (2)  the address and telephone number of:
                     (A)  the place of employment or business of a
  person protected by the order; or
                     (B) [(3)]  the child-care facility or school a
  child protected by the order attends or in which the child resides.
         SECTION 3.  (a) Section 82.011, Family Code, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to an application for a protective order that
  is filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  An application
  for a protective order filed before the effective date of this Act
  is governed by the law in effect on the date the application is
  filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         (b)  Section 85.007, Family Code, as amended by this Act,
  applies to a protective order regardless of whether the protective
  order was rendered before, on, or after the effective date of this
  Act.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.