Bill Text: TX SB578 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the confidentiality of certain personal information of an applicant for or a person protected by a protective order.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB578 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB578-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 578 |
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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[ |
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(2) the address and telephone number of: | ||
(A) the place of employment or business of a | ||
person protected by the order; or | ||
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 578 passed the Senate on | ||
March 13, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 578 passed the House on | ||
May 9, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 12, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |