1-1  By:  Parker                                           S.B. No. 1283
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 17, 1993; March 18, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 4, 1993,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-12        Luna                                           x   
   1-13        Parker             x                               
   1-14        West               x                               
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to disclosure of certain information by the State
   1-18  Commission on Judicial Conduct.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 33.032, Government Code, is amended by
   1-21  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
   1-22  follows:
   1-23        (a)  Except as provided by Section 33.034(d) and Subsections
   1-24  <Subsection> (c) and (d) of this section, the papers filed with and
   1-25  proceedings before the commission are confidential prior to the
   1-26  convening of a formal hearing.
   1-27        (d)  The commission may disclose information it has regarding
   1-28  an investigation of a judge or a public or private sanction issued
   1-29  by the commission against a judge to the governor's appointments
   1-30  office or an official of the government of the United States after
   1-31  receipt of a written request from the office or the official,
   1-32  accompanied by a written request from the affected judge granting
   1-33  permission for release of all information.  If investigative
   1-34  information in the possession of the commission indicates a crime
   1-35  may have been committed, the commission may report the information
   1-36  to the proper law enforcement agency.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-44                                                         Austin,
   1-45  Texas
   1-46                                                         May 4, 1993
   1-47  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-48  President of the Senate
   1-49  Sir:
   1-50  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
   1-51  No. 1283, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-52  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-53  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-54                                                         Henderson,
   1-55  Chairman
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   1-57                               WITNESSES