Bill Text: TX HB4630 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to access to and notification of protective order registry information for civil attorneys, courts, prosecuting attorneys, peace officers, and victims pro se.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB4630 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4630-Introduced.html
| By: Jones of Harris | H.B. No. 4630 | |
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| relating to access to and notification of protective order registry | ||
| information for civil attorneys, courts, prosecuting attorneys, | ||
| peace officers, and victims pro se. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as Anthony's Law. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 72, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 72.1555 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 72.1555. ACCESS TO AND NOTIFICATION OF CERTAIN | ||
| REGISTRY INFORMATION. (a) The protective order registry must be | ||
| configured to provide access to information in the registry to: | ||
| (1) a court with jurisdiction over a case in which a | ||
| person who is subject to a protective order appears related to a | ||
| civil violation of the protective order or for any criminal | ||
| offense; | ||
| (2) the attorney general or a district attorney, | ||
| criminal district attorney, civil attorney, county attorney, | ||
| municipal attorney, or victim pro se who is prosecuting a person who | ||
| is subject to the protective order; or | ||
| (3) a peace officer who is investigating a person who | ||
| is subject to the protective order. | ||
| (b) If a person subject to a protective order issued by a | ||
| court appears in a court of another county for a civil violation of | ||
| the protective order or any criminal offense, the registry must be | ||
| configured to provide notice to the court that issued the | ||
| protective order of: | ||
| (1) the time, place, and nature of the person's | ||
| violation or offense; | ||
| (2) the name and location of the court with | ||
| jurisdiction over the violation or offense; | ||
| (3) the name and contact information of the attorney | ||
| general or the district attorney, criminal district attorney, | ||
| county attorney, or municipal attorney who is prosecuting the | ||
| violation or offense; and | ||
| (4) the name and contact information of any peace | ||
| officer whose information is included in the registry as the | ||
| investigator for the violation or offense. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
