By:  Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Averitt)                            H.B. No. 2676
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 2003; 
May 1, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Jurisprudence; May 6, 2003, rereferred to Committee on 
Administration; May 13, 2003, reported favorably by the following 
vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the reporting duties of the attorney general.                   
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 402.003, Government Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	Sec. 402.003.  REPORT.  The attorney general shall report to 
the governor on the first Monday of December of each even-numbered 
year.  The report must include the following information for the 
preceding two years:
		(1)  [a statement of the number of indictments found by 
grand juries in the state and the offenses charged;
		[(2)  a statement of the number of trials, convictions, 
and acquittals for each offense;
		[(3)  a statement of the number of dismissals;               
		[(4)  a summary of the judgments rendered on 
conviction, the nature and amount of penalties imposed, and the 
amount of fines collected;
		[(5)]  a summary of the cases in which the state was a 
party that were acted on by the supreme court and court of criminal 
appeals; and
		(2) [(6)]  a summary of civil cases in which the state 
was a party that were prosecuted or defended by the attorney general 
in other state or federal courts.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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