Bill Text: TX HB3139 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to service of a notice of a temporary ex parte protective order.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3139 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3139-Introduced.html

	86R12001 MM-F

	By: Bowers	H.B. No. 3139



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to service of a notice of an application for a protective
	order.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 82.043(c), Family Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(c) Notice of an application for a protective order must be
	served on the person [~~in the same manner as citation under the Texas~~
	~~Rules of Civil Procedure, except that service by publication is not~~
	~~authorized~~].
	SECTION 2. Section 82.043, Family Code, as amended by this
	Act, applies only to a notice of an application for a protective
	order served on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	application for a protective order served before the effective date
	of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before that
	date, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.