By: Gallego H.B. No. 425
73R719 CLG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reimbursement for travel and living expenses of
1-3 certain witnesses in criminal cases.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Article 35.27, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 1. Every person subpoenaed by either party or otherwise
1-8 required or requested in writing by the prosecuting attorney or the
1-9 court to appear for the purpose of giving testimony in a criminal
1-10 proceeding who resides 50 or more miles from the place where the
1-11 proceeding is held <outside the State or the county in which the
1-12 prosecution is pending> shall be compensated by the State for the
1-13 reasonable and necessary travel and daily living expenses he incurs
1-14 by reason of his attendance as a witness at such proceeding.
1-15 SECTION 2. This section applies to reimbursement of a
1-16 witness for travel expenses and daily living expenses incurred on
1-17 or after the effective date of this Act. The reimbursement for
1-18 expenses incurred before the effective date of this Act is governed
1-19 by the law in effect when the expenses were incurred, and the
1-20 former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.