1-1  By:  Brown                                              S.B. No. 38
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed November 14, 1994; January 10, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  March 21, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 38 as follows:
    1-8        (1)  In Section 1, Article 43.20, Code of Criminal Procedure
    1-9  (page 1, line 19; committee printing page 1, line 31) after "56.01
   1-10  of this code," and before the word "shall" insert "not exceeding
   1-11  five in number"
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to individuals permitted to attend the execution of a
   1-15  capital felon.
   1-16        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-17        SECTION 1.  Article 43.20, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-18  amended to read as follows:
   1-19        Art. 43.20.  PRESENT AT EXECUTION.  The following persons may
   1-20  be present at the execution:  the executioner, and such persons as
   1-21  may be necessary to assist him in conducting the execution,<;> the
   1-22  members of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice <Board of Directors
   1-23  of the Department of Corrections>, two physicians, including the
   1-24  prison physician, the spiritual advisor of the condemned, the
   1-25  chaplains of the institutional division of the Texas Department of
   1-26  Criminal Justice <Department of Corrections>, the county judge and
   1-27  sheriff of the county in which the unit of the institutional
   1-28  division <Department of Corrections> is situated, <and> any of the
   1-29  relatives or friends of the condemned person that he may request,
   1-30  not exceeding five in number, and close relatives of the deceased
   1-31  victim, as defined by Article 56.01 of this code, shall be
   1-32  admitted.  No convict shall be permitted by the prison authorities
   1-33  to witness the execution.
   1-34        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-35  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-36  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-37  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-38  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-39  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-40  passage, and it is so enacted.
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