By:  Gallego                                          H.B. No. 2596
       73R6838 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposition after review by the Court of Criminal
    1-3  Appeals of a criminal case in which the punishment assessed is the
    1-4  death penalty.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 5, Chapter 838, Acts of
    1-7  the 72nd Legislature, Regular Session, 1991, the change in law made
    1-8  to Subsections (b) and (c) of Article 44.29, Code of Criminal
    1-9  Procedure, in Section 2 of Chapter 838, and the change in law made
   1-10  to Article 44.251, Code of Criminal Procedure, in Section 3 of
   1-11  Chapter 838, applies to any offense for which a sentence of death
   1-12  is set aside or invalidated by the Court of Criminal Appeals and
   1-13  for which a new trial has not commenced on or after the effective
   1-14  date of this Act.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  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 this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.