Bill Text: TX HB1139 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital offense committed by a person with an intellectual disability.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-24 - Senate appoints conferees-reported [HB1139 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1139-Comm_Sub.html
By: Thompson of Harris, et al. | H.B. No. 1139 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Miles, West) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 30, 2019; | ||
May 1, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 17, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; | ||
May 17, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1139 | By: Whitmire |
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relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital | ||
offense committed by a person with an intellectual disability. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 1, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended | ||
by adding Chapter 46E to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 46E. CAPITAL CASE: EFFECT OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY | ||
Art. 46E.001. RESTRICTION ON DEATH PENALTY. A defendant | ||
who is a person with an intellectual disability may not be sentenced | ||
to death. | ||
Art. 46E.002. PREVAILING MEDICAL STANDARDS. Evidence | ||
offered by either party for purposes of determining whether a | ||
defendant is a person with an intellectual disability must be | ||
consistent with prevailing medical standards for the diagnosis of | ||
intellectual disabilities. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a trial that commences on or after the effective date of this Act, | ||
regardless of whether the alleged offense was committed before, on, | ||
or after that date. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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