83R9241 SCL-D
By: Gooden H.B. No. 2064
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an unsworn declaration made by an employee of a state
agency or political subdivision or a private process server in the
performance of the employee's or server's job duties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 132.001, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections
(f) and (g) to read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsections [Subsection] (e),
(f), and (g), an unsworn declaration made under this section must
include a jurat in substantially the following form:
"My name is __________ _________ ____________, my
(First) (Middle) (Last)
date of birth is _________________, and my address is
_____________, ____________, _________, _________,
(Street) (City) (State) (Zip Code)
and __________________. I declare under penalty of
(Country)
perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed in _______ County, State of ________, on
the ________ day of________, ________.
(Month) (Year)
____________________
Declarant"
(f) An unsworn declaration made under this section by an
employee of a state agency or a political subdivision in the
performance of the employee's job duties, must include a jurat in
substantially the following form:
"My name is ___________ __________ ___________,
(First) (Middle) (Last)
and I am an employee of the following governmental
agency: __________________. I am executing this
declaration as part of my assigned duties and
responsibilities. I declare under penalty of perjury
that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed in _____________ County, State of
_________, on the _____ day of ________, _______.
(Month) (Year)
____________________
Declarant"
(g) An unsworn declaration made under this section by a
private process server in the performance of the server's job
duties, must include a jurat in substantially the following form:
"My name is ___________ __________ ___________,
(First) (Middle) (Last)
and I am a private process server with the following
Process Server Review Board identification number:
__________________. I am executing this declaration
as part of my assigned duties and responsibilities. I
declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is
true and correct.
Executed in _____________ County, State of
_________, on the _____ day of ________, _______.
(Month) (Year)
____________________
Declarant"
SECTION 2. Sections 132.001(f) and (g), Civil Practice and
Remedies Code, as added by this Act, apply only to an unsworn
declaration executed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
unsworn declaration executed before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective
date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.