Bill Text: TX HB3334 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the recording of testimony before a grand jury.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on intent calendar [HB3334 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3334-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez) | H.B. No. 3334 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013; | ||
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the recording of testimony before a grand jury. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Article 20.012, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 20.012. RECORDING OF GRAND JURY [ |
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SECTION 2. Article 20.012(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Questions propounded by the grand jury or the attorney | ||
representing the state to a witness before the grand jury, | ||
including a witness who is the person accused or suspected, and the | ||
testimony of that witness [ |
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recorded either by a stenographer or by use of an electronic device | ||
capable of recording sound. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act applies only to a grand jury whose term | ||
commences on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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