Bill Text: TX HB4037 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the time period for conducting a pretrial hearing after a criminal defendant has been restored to competency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB4037 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4037-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Hayes | H.B. No. 4037 | |
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| relating to the time period for conducting a pretrial hearing after | ||
| a criminal defendant has been restored to competency. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 46B.084(d-1), Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d-1) This article does not require the criminal case to be | ||
| finally resolved within any specific period, except that any | ||
| pretrial hearing in the case must be conducted not later than the | ||
| 30th day after the date of the court's determination under this | ||
| article that the defendant's competency has been restored. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
