By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1059
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to consultation with a lawyer in a criminal case.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Chapter 38, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-4  amended by adding Article 38.36 to read as follows:
    1-5        Art. 38.36.  CONSULTATION WITH A LAWYER.  The act of
    1-6  contacting or retaining an attorney shall not be used against any
    1-7  individual or entity unless that act falls within an established
    1-8  crime-fraud exception.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its
   1-16  terms, and it is so enacted.