Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Clark H.B. No. 2710 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to an amended indictment. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 28.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) All amendments of an indictment or information shall be 1-7 made with the leave of the court and under its direction. 1-8 (b) An amendment of an indictment or information shall 1-9 become effective by either: 1-10 (1) actual interlineation of the indictment or 1-11 information by the court; or 1-12 (2) entry by the court of a written order that 1-13 reflects the additions, deletions or other modifications to the 1-14 indictment or information effected by the amendment, which order 1-15 shall be filed among the papers of the cause. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars of both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.