Bill Text: TX HB4037 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.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. |