Bill Text: TX HB3334 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the recording of testimony before a grand jury.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-21 - Placed on intent calendar [HB3334 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3334-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Hughes (Senate Sponsor - Rodriguez) H.B. No. 3334
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 9, 2013;
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the recording of testimony before a grand jury.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Article 20.012, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
Art. 20.012. RECORDING OF GRAND JURY [CERTAIN] TESTIMONY.
SECTION 2. Article 20.012(a), Code of Criminal Procedure,
is amended to read as follows:
(a) Questions propounded by the grand jury or the attorney
representing the state to a witness before the grand jury,
including a witness who is the person accused or suspected, and the
testimony of that witness [person] to the grand jury shall be
recorded either by a stenographer or by use of an electronic device
capable of recording sound.
SECTION 3. This Act applies only to a grand jury whose term
commences on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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