By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1125 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to mediation in certain criminal cases. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Article 26.13, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-4 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-5 (h) Notwithstanding this article, a court shall not order 1-6 the state or any of its prosecuting attorneys to participate in 1-7 mediation, dispute resolution, arbitration, or other similar 1-8 procedures in relation to a felony criminal prosecution unless upon 1-9 written consent of the state. 1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-16 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-17 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 1-18 Amend S.B. No. 1125 in SECTION 1, in proposed Subsection (h), 1-19 Article 26.13, Code of Criminal Procedure (Senate Engrossment, page 1-20 1, line 8), by striking "in relation to a felony criminal 1-21 prosecution" and substituting "in relation to a criminal 1-22 prosecution". 1-23 76R14464 GWK-D Hinojosa