By: Uresti S.B. No. 1022
(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2015; March 11, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 6, 2015,
reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 6, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1022 By: Nelson
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an unsworn declaration made by a private process server
in the performance of the 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 Subsection
(g) to read as follows:
(d) Except as provided by Subsections (e), [and] (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"
(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
Judicial Branch Certification Commission
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. Section 132.001(g), Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, as added by this Act, applies 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, 2015.
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