By Hinojosa                                           H.B. No. 3066
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the participation of attorneys representing the state
 1-3     in criminal cases in mediation or similar procedures.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 26.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  Notwithstanding Subsection (g) of this article, the
 1-8     court may not require an attorney representing the state, without
 1-9     the written consent of the attorney, to participate in mediation,
1-10     dispute resolution, arbitration, or a similar procedure.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.