By Hinojosa H.B. No. 3071 76R8739 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to judicial enforcement of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended 1-5 by adding Article 1.011 to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 1.011. JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT. (a) A court to which a 1-7 mandatory provision of this code applies shall faithfully enforce 1-8 that provision. 1-9 (b) The failure or refusal of a trial court to enforce a 1-10 mandatory provision of this code is not a cause for reversal of a 1-11 conviction if the appellate court determines that the failure or 1-12 refusal had no effect on the outcome of the trial. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.