Sec. 17.030.  RETURN OF SERVICE.  (a)  The supreme court shall adopt rules of civil procedure requiring a person who serves process to complete a return of service.
(b)  The rules:
(1)  must provide that the return of service:
(A)  is not required to be endorsed or attached to the original process issued; and
(B)  may be electronically filed; and
(2)  may require that the following information be included in the return of service:
(A)  the cause number and case name;
(B)  the court in which the case has been filed;
(C)  the date and time process was received for service;
(D)  the person or entity served;
(E)  the address served;
(F)  the date of service;
(G)  the manner of delivery of service;
(H)  a description of process served;
(I)  the name of the person serving process; and
(J)  if the process server is certified as a process server by the supreme court, the process server's identification number.
(c)  A person certified by the supreme court as a process server or a person authorized outside of Texas to serve process shall sign the return of service under penalty of perjury.  The return of service is not required to be verified.
(d)  A person who knowingly or intentionally falsifies a return of service may be prosecuted for tampering with a governmental record as provided by Chapter 37, Penal Code.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 245 (H.B. 962), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2012.