Bill Text: TX HB1381 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the service of civil process on an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1381 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1381-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1381 | ||
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| relating to the service of civil process on an inmate of the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 17, Civil Practice and | ||
| Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 17.029 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 17.029. SERVICE ON INMATE OF TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | ||
| CRIMINAL JUSTICE. (a) In this section, "inmate" means a person | ||
| confined in a facility operated by or under contract with the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice. | ||
| (b) In a civil action against an inmate, citation or other | ||
| civil process may be served on the inmate by serving a person | ||
| designated under Subsection (c) as an agent for service of civil | ||
| process. | ||
| (c) The warden of each facility operated by or under | ||
| contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shall | ||
| designate an employee at the facility to serve as an agent for | ||
| service of civil process on inmates confined in the facility. | ||
| (d) An employee designated under Subsection (c) as an agent | ||
| for service of civil process shall promptly deliver any civil | ||
| process served on the employee to the appropriate inmate. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2011, the warden of | ||
| each facility operated by or under contract with the Texas | ||
| Department of Criminal Justice shall designate an employee at the | ||
| facility to serve as an agent for service of civil process as | ||
| required by Section 17.029, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, as | ||
| added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1381 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1381 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
