By: Brady H.B. No. 2391 73R6682 NSC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to presentence investigation reports in a criminal case. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 9, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal 1-5 Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (k) to read as follows: 1-6 (k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the 1-7 court may waive the preparation of a report under this section in a 1-8 felony or misdemeanor case if the attorney representing the state 1-9 and the defendant agree in writing to waive the preparation of the 1-10 report. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.