By: Henderson S.B. No. 475
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to records of the crime stoppers advisory council or a
1-2 local crime stoppers program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 414.008, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Records of the council or a local crime stoppers program
1-7 concerning a report of criminal activity may not be compelled to be
1-8 produced before a court or other tribunal, except on motion by
1-9 either party to a case, the judge of the court with jurisdiction in
1-10 the case shall subpoena the records, examine the records in camera,
1-11 and release to the parties any exculpatory information therein <on
1-12 the order of the supreme court>.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.