Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.052 · Subchapter B. ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN CRIME VICTIMS
ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The attorney general shall establish an address confidentiality program, as provided by this subchapter, to assist a victim of family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, child abduction, or trafficking of persons in maintaining a confidential address.
(b) The attorney general shall:
(1) designate a substitute post office box address that a participant may use in place of the participant's true residential, business, or school address;
(2) act as agent to receive service of process and mail on behalf of the participant; and
(3) forward to the participant mail received by the office of the attorney general on behalf of the participant.
(c) A summons, writ, notice, demand, or process may be served on the attorney general on behalf of the participant by delivery of two copies of the document to the office of the attorney general. The attorney general shall retain a copy of the summons, writ, notice, demand, or process and forward the original to the participant not later than the third day after the date of service on the attorney general.
(d) The attorney general shall make and retain a copy of the envelope in which certified mail is received on behalf of the participant.
(e) The attorney general shall adopt rules to administer the program.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 469 (H.B. 4173), Sec. 1.07, eff. January 1, 2021.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 177 (H.B. 1161), Sec. 2, eff. May 24, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.58.htm
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