88R3029 AMF-D
By: Cook H.B. No. 660
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a law enforcement agency's duty to enter certain
protective order information into certain agency computer records
and state information databases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 86.001(b), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) A law enforcement agency shall [may] enter a protective
order in the agency's computer records of outstanding warrants as
notice that the order has been issued and is currently in effect. On
receipt of notification by a clerk of court that the court has
vacated or dismissed an order, the law enforcement agency shall
remove the order from the agency's computer record of outstanding
warrants.
SECTION 2. Section 86.0011(a), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) On receipt of an original or modified protective order
from the clerk of the issuing court, or on receipt of information
pertaining to the date of confinement or imprisonment or date of
release of a person subject to the protective order, a law
enforcement agency shall immediately, but not later than the next
[third] business day after the date the order or information is
received, enter the information required by Section 411.042(b)(6),
Government Code, into the statewide law enforcement information
system maintained by the Department of Public Safety.
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
information regarding a protective order received by a law
enforcement agency on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.