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.