1-1     By:  Ritter (Senate Sponsor - Staples)                H.B. No. 1658
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 2, 2001;
 1-3     April 3, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 9, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the duty of a county to notify the Texas Department of
 1-9     Criminal Justice regarding certain dismissals of criminal cases.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 8, Article 42.09, Code of Criminal
1-12     Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
1-13           (j)  If after a county transfers a defendant or inmate to the
1-14     Texas Department of Criminal Justice the charges on which the
1-15     defendant or inmate was convicted and for which the defendant or
1-16     inmate was transferred are dismissed, the county shall immediately
1-17     notify an officer designated by the department of the dismissal.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-19     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-20     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-21     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-22     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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