84R23265 MAW-F
 
  By: Thompson of Harris, Herrero H.B. No. 2110
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2110:
 
  By:  Herrero C.S.H.B. No. 2110
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the scheduling of an execution date and the issuance of
  a warrant of execution.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 43.141, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
         (b-1)  A convicting court may not set an execution date
  unless:
               (1)  the attorney representing the state files a
  written motion to set an execution date; and
               (2)  not later than the 10th day before the date on
  which the court enters an order setting the execution date, a copy
  of the motion is served on:
                     (A)  the attorney who represented the condemned
  person in the most recently concluded stage of a state or federal
  postconviction proceeding; and
                     (B)  the office of capital writs established under
  Subchapter B, Chapter 78, Government Code.
         SECTION 2.  Article 43.15, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 43.15.  WARRANT OF EXECUTION. (a) Whenever any person
  is sentenced to death, the clerk of the court in which the sentence
  is pronounced[,] shall, not later than the 10th day [within ten
  days] after the court enters its order setting the date for
  execution, issue a warrant under the seal of the court for the
  execution of the sentence of death, which shall recite the fact of
  conviction, setting forth specifically the offense, the judgment of
  the court, and the time fixed for the [his] execution, and which
  shall be directed to the director of the correctional institutions
  division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice [Director of
  the Department of Corrections] at Huntsville, Texas, commanding the
  director [him] to proceed, at the time and place named in the order
  of execution, to carry the same into execution, as provided in [the
  preceding] Article 43.14, and shall deliver such warrant to the
  sheriff of the county in which such judgment of conviction was had,
  to be [by him] delivered by the sheriff to the director [said
  Director of the Department of Corrections], together with the
  condemned person if the person [he] has not previously been so
  delivered.
         (b)  At the time the warrant is issued under Subsection (a),
  the clerk of the court shall send a copy of the warrant to:
               (1)  the attorney who represented the condemned person
  in the most recently concluded stage of a state or federal
  postconviction proceeding;
               (2)  the attorney representing the state; and
               (3)  the office of capital writs established under
  Subchapter B, Chapter 78, Government Code.
         SECTION 3.  (a) Article 43.141, Code of Criminal Procedure,
  as amended by this Act, applies only to an order entered on or after
  the effective date of this Act. An order entered before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the order was entered, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         (b)  Article 43.15, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by
  this Act, applies only to a warrant issued on or after the effective
  date of this Act. A warrant issued before the effective date of this
  Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant was
  issued, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.