1-1  By:  Naishtat, Combs (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)       H.B. No. 2662
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the form of a person's name in an indictment.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Article 21.07, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        Art. 21.07.  ALLEGATION OF NAME.  In alleging the name of the
   1-13  defendant, or of any other person necessary to be stated in the
   1-14  indictment, it shall be sufficient to state one or more of the
   1-15  initials of the given <Christian> name and the surname.  When a
   1-16  person is known by two or more names, it shall be sufficient to
   1-17  state either name.  When the name of the person is unknown to the
   1-18  grand jury, that fact shall be stated, and if it be the accused, a
   1-19  reasonably accurate description of him shall be given in the
   1-20  indictment.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-22  only to an indictment for an offense committed on or after the
   1-23  effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-24  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-25  element of the offense occurs before that date.
   1-26        (b)  An indictment for an offense committed before the
   1-27  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when
   1-28  the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
   1-29  effect for this purpose.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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