By Henderson S.B. No. 578 74R4891 NSC-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the broadcasting, recording, videotaping, or 1-3 photographing of a criminal proceeding. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended 1-6 by adding Article 1.28 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 1.28. BROADCASTING, RECORDING, VIDEOTAPING, OR 1-8 PHOTOGRAPHING PROCEEDING. (a) A court may not permit the 1-9 broadcasting by radio or television or the recording, videotaping, 1-10 or photographing of a court proceeding unless the attorney 1-11 representing the state and the defendant consent to the 1-12 broadcasting or the recording, videotaping, or photographing of the 1-13 proceeding. 1-14 (b) Regardless of whether the attorney representing the 1-15 state and the defendant consent under Subsection (a), the court may 1-16 not permit the broadcasting by radio or television or the recording 1-17 or videotaping of the testimony of a witness in the proceeding or 1-18 the photographing of the witness, unless the witness consents. 1-19 (c) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to the recording of 1-20 a proceeding made by a court reporter for the use of the court or a 1-21 party to the proceeding. Subsection (b) does not apply to the 1-22 closed circuit transmission of audio or video information by the 1-23 court or a bailiff for the use of the court or a party. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.