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      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.