Tex. Civ. Practice & Remedies Code Section 17.030
Return of Service

The supreme court shall adopt rules of civil procedure requiring a person who serves process to complete a return of service.

(b)

(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 (Perjury and Other Falsification), Penal Code. Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 245 (H.B. 962), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2012.