By Alonzo H.B. No. 1440 74R5740 NSC-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the dismissal of an appeal from a justice or municipal 1-3 court in a criminal case. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 44.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-7 (e) The court to which an appeal is taken may dismiss the 1-8 appeal if the defendant fails to comply with a term of an appeal 1-9 bond. 1-10 SECTION 2. 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 from and after its 1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.