The supreme court shall adopt rules of civil procedure requiring a person who serves process to complete a return of service.
if the process server is certified as a process server by the supreme court, the process server’s identification number.
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.
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.