By: Gallego H.B. No. 376 73R716 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a prosecuting attorney to call a 1-3 grand jury back into session. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 20.08, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 20.08. ADJOURNMENTS. The grand jury shall meet and 1-8 adjourn at times agreed upon by a majority of the body; but they 1-9 shall not adjourn, at any one time, for more than three days, 1-10 unless by consent of the court. With the consent of the court, 1-11 they may adjourn for a longer time, and shall as near as may be, 1-12 conform their adjournments to those of the court. If the grand 1-13 jury has adjourned for more than three days, a prosecuting attorney 1-14 with jurisdiction before the court may call the grand jury back 1-15 into session. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.