| |
|
|
SENATE RESOLUTION
|
|
|
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 84th |
|
|
Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, That Senate Rule 12.03 be |
|
|
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the |
|
|
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on |
|
|
House Bill 2645 (the prosecution of certain offenses involving |
|
|
family violence and to the violation of certain court orders or |
|
|
conditions of bond in a family violence, sexual assault or abuse, |
|
|
or stalking case) to consider and take action on the following |
|
|
matter: |
|
|
Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee |
|
|
to add text on a matter which is not included in either the house |
|
|
or senate version of the bill by adding the following text to |
|
|
SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Article 38.371, Code of Criminal |
|
|
Procedure: |
|
|
(c) This article does not permit the presentation of |
|
|
character evidence that would otherwise be inadmissible under |
|
|
the Texas Rules of Evidence or other applicable law. |
|
|
Explanation: This addition is necessary to clarify that |
|
|
Article 38.371, Code of Criminal Procedure, does not permit the |
|
|
presentation of character evidence that is otherwise |
|
|
inadmissible under the Texas Rules of Evidence or other |
|
|
applicable law. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
_______________________________ |
|
|
|
President of the Senate |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I hereby certify that the |
|
|
|
above Resolution was adopted by |
|
|
|
the Senate on May 30, 2015, by the |
|
|
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
_______________________________ |
|
|
|
Secretary of the Senate |