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Senate Bill 825 |
Senate Author: Whitmire et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-13 |
House Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia |
Senate Bill 825 amends the Government Code to require the standards and procedures established by the Texas Supreme Court for the attorney disciplinary and disability system to provide for the Commission for Lawyer Discipline adopting rules that prohibit a grievance committee from giving a private reprimand for a violation of a disciplinary rule requiring a prosecutor to disclose to the defense all evidence or information known to the prosecutor that tends to negate the guilt of the accused or mitigates the offense. The bill requires the supreme court to ensure that the statute of limitations applicable to a grievance filed against a prosecutor that alleges a violation of the disclosure rule does not begin to run until the date on which a wrongfully imprisoned person is released from a penal institution.