Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.054 · Subchapter B. ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN CRIME VICTIMS
ELIGIBILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
To be eligible to participate in the program:
(1) an applicant must satisfy any of the following:
(A) meet with a victim's assistance counselor from a state or local agency or other for-profit or nonprofit entity that is identified by the attorney general as an entity that provides shelter or civil legal services or counseling to victims of family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, child abduction, or trafficking of persons;
(B) be protected under, or be filing an application on behalf of a victim who is the applicant's child or another person in the applicant's household and who is protected under:
(i) a temporary injunction issued under Subchapter F, Chapter 6, Family Code;
(ii) a temporary ex parte order issued under Chapter 83, Family Code;
(iii) an order issued under Subchapter A or B, Chapter 7B, of this code or Chapter 85, Family Code; or
(iv) a magistrate's order for emergency protection issued under Article 17.292; or
(C) possess documentation of family violence, child abduction, or trafficking of persons, as identified by the rules adopted under Article 58.056, or of sexual assault or abuse or stalking, as described by Section 92.0161, Property Code; and
(2) an applicant must satisfy all of the following:
(A) file an application for participation with the attorney general or a state or local agency or other entity identified by the attorney general under Subdivision (1);
(B) file an affirmation that the applicant has discussed safety planning with a victim's assistance counselor described by Subdivision (1)(A);
(C) designate the attorney general as agent to receive service of process and mail on behalf of the applicant; and
(D) live at a residential address, or relocate to a residential address, that is unknown to the person who committed or is alleged to have committed the family violence, sexual assault or abuse, stalking, child abduction, or trafficking of persons.
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. 3, eff. May 24, 2023.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.58.htm
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Code of Criminal Procedure
Family Code
Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.054. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Code of Criminal Procedure
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.055APPLICATION.Printed as Article 58.054(2)(A)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.056APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY RULES AND PROCEDURES.Printed as Article 58.054(1)(B) | Article 58.054(2)(A)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.057FALSE STATEMENT ON APPLICATION.Printed as Article 58.054(2)(A)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.058EXCLUSION FROM PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAM; WITHDRAWAL.Printed as Article 58.054(2)(A)
- Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 58.059CERTIFICATION OF PARTICIPATION IN PROGRAM.Printed as Articles 58.054 and 58.056(b)
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