Bill Text: TX HB3724 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 3724 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of certain scientific evidence constituting the basis for an application for a writ of habeas corpus.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB3724 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3724-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 3724




	AN ACT
	relating to the consideration of certain scientific evidence
	constituting the basis for an application for a writ of habeas
	corpus.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article 11.073(d), Code of Criminal Procedure,
	is amended to read as follows:
	(d) In making a finding as to whether relevant scientific
	evidence was not ascertainable through the exercise of reasonable
	diligence on or before a specific date, the court shall consider
	whether the field of scientific knowledge, a testifying expert's
	scientific knowledge, or a scientific method on which the relevant
	scientific evidence is based has changed since:
	(1) the applicable trial date or dates, for a
	determination made with respect to an original application; or
	(2) the date on which the original application or a
	previously considered application, as applicable, was filed, for a
	determination made with respect to a subsequent application.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3724 was passed by the House on May
	11, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 3, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 3724 was passed by the Senate on May
	22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor