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House Bill 1573 |
House Author: Gallego |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Carona |
House Bill 1573 amends provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to certain pretrial and post-trial procedures and testing in a criminal case. Among other provisions, the bill changes the deadline for certain courts for posting notice of a criminal court docket setting in the courthouse, prohibits a grand jury indictment from being made public under certain circumstances, and revises the information required to be included in an ex parte petition for an expunction of records. The bill revises the evidence criteria for a motion by a convicted person for forensic DNA testing of evidence containing biological material and requires a convicting court, if an analyzed DNA sample meets the applicable requirements of state or federal submission policies and on completion of the DNA testing, to order any unidentified DNA profile to be compared with the DNA profiles in the DNA databases of the FBI and the Department of Public Safety.