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House Bill 1173 |
House Author: Riddle |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Huffman |
House Bill 1173 adds temporary provisions, set to expire September 1, 2013, to the Code of Criminal Procedure to require the release on bond within 36 hours of the arrest of a person who, in a county with a population of three million or more, is arrested without a warrant for a misdemeanor and detained in jail, if a magistrate has not determined whether probable cause exists to believe that the person committed the offense. The bill requires each such county to conduct an impact study to determine the impact of this requirement on the county's ability to control and process its misdemeanor caseload, lists the statistics required to be assessed in the study, and requires each county to file the study with its commissioners court and certain legislative committees with criminal justice oversight and make the study's results available to the public.