AN ACT
1-1 relating to the requisition for the return of a person charged with
1-2 crime in this state.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subdivision 3, Section 23, Article 51.13, Code of
1-5 Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Subdiv. 3. The application shall be verified by affidavit,
1-7 shall be executed in duplicate and shall be accompanied by two
1-8 certified copies of the indictment returned, or information and
1-9 affidavit filed, or of the complaint made to the judge or
1-10 magistrate, stating the offense with which the accused is charged,
1-11 or of the judgment of conviction or of the sentence. The
1-12 prosecuting officer, parole board, warden or sheriff may also
1-13 attach such further affidavits and other documents in duplicate as
1-14 he shall deem proper to be submitted with such application. One
1-15 copy of the application, with the action of the Governor indicated
1-16 by endorsement thereon, and one of the certified copies of the
1-17 indictment, complaint, information, and affidavits, or of the
1-18 judgment of conviction or of the sentence shall be filed in the
1-19 office of the Governor [Secretary of State to remain on record in
1-20 that office]. The other copies of all papers shall be forwarded
1-21 with the Governor's requisition.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1579 passed the Senate on
April 17, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1579 passed the House on
May 21, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor