By Dutton                                             H.B. No. 1228
       74R4370 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a bill of particulars in a criminal case.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 27, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended by adding Article 27.081 to read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 27.081.  BILL OF PARTICULARS.  (a)  The court on motion
    1-7  of the defendant may require the attorney representing the state to
    1-8  file a bill of particulars.
    1-9        (b)  The attorney representing the state may amend a bill of
   1-10  particulars at any time subject to any conditions the court may
   1-11  require.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.