By Thompson of Harris H.B. No. 1160
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to records of the crime stoppers advisory council or a
1-3 local crime stoppers program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 414.008, Government Code,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Records of the council or a local crime stoppers program
1-8 concerning a report of criminal activity may not be compelled to be
1-9 produced before a court or other tribunal, except on motion by
1-10 either party to a case, the judge of the court with jurisdiction in
1-11 the case shall subpoena the records, examine the records in camera,
1-12 and release to the parties any exculpatory information therein <on
1-13 the order of the supreme court>.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and that this Act take effect and
1-20 be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.