Bill Text: TX SB116 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to protective orders against dating violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB116 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB116-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to protective orders against dating violence.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB116 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB116-Comm_Sub.html
By: Uresti | S.B. No. 116 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 8, 2010; January 31, 2011, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
March 14, 2011, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 14, 2011, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 116 | By: Hinojosa |
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relating to protective orders against dating violence. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the Kristy Appleby | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 71.0021, Family Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) "Dating violence" means an act by an individual that is | ||
against another individual with whom that person has or has had a | ||
dating relationship, or by an individual against another individual | ||
who is in a dating relationship with a third individual with whom | ||
the actor is or has been in a dating relationship or marriage, and | ||
that is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, | ||
assault, or sexual assault or that is a threat that reasonably | ||
places the individual in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily | ||
injury, assault, or sexual assault, but does not include defensive | ||
measures to protect oneself. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
71.0021, Family Code, 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. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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