Bill Text: TX HB1381 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Madden (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) | H.B. No. 1381 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2011; | ||
April 29, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Criminal Justice; May 12, 2011, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 12, 2011, sent to printer.) |
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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. | ||
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