By Longoria H.B. No. 86 75R1353 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the withdrawal of certain misdemeanor arrest warrants 1-3 and the dismissal of prosecutions arising from the issuance of 1-4 those warrants. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Article 32.03 to read as follows: 1-8 Art. 32.03. DISMISSAL OF CERTAIN MISDEMEANORS. (a) A judge 1-9 periodically may request the clerk serving the court to provide to 1-10 the judge a list showing each misdemeanor arrest warrant issued by 1-11 the court: 1-12 (1) that is more than five years old; 1-13 (2) for which there is no record of a subsequent 1-14 conviction, acquittal, or dismissal of a prosecution of the 1-15 individual named in the warrant arising from the issuance of the 1-16 warrant; and 1-17 (3) for which there is no record of an arrest of the 1-18 individual named in the warrant on any offense alleged to have been 1-19 committed after the offense for which the warrant was issued. 1-20 (b) The judge on the judge's own motion, the motion of the 1-21 clerk of the court, or the motion of the attorney representing the 1-22 state in the prosecution of misdemeanors may withdraw any warrant 1-23 described by Subsection (a) and dismiss any prosecution arising 1-24 from the warrant. 2-1 SECTION 2. 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, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.