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. 1-23 * * * * *