HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Jurisprudence

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Tuesday, April 17, 2001

PLACE: E2.028

CHAIR: Rep. Juan Hinojosa

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The committee will consider the following bills:


HB 1713            Thompson / et al.
Relating to the suspension of sentence and the deferral of
adjudication in cases involving certain misdemeanor traffic
offenses.

SB 730            Harris
Relating to the suspension of sentence and the deferral of
adjudication in cases involving certain misdemeanor traffic
offenses.

HJR 12            McClendon
Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit the denial of bail
to certain persons charged with committing intoxication
manslaughter.

HJR 26            Carter / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the denial of bail
to persons charged with a third or subsequent offense involving the
operation while intoxicated of a motor vehicle, an aircraft, or a
watercraft.

HB 1860            Turner, Sylvester
Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital
offense committed by a person younger than 18 years of age at the
time of the commission of the offense.

HB 2048            Burnam
Relating to the punishment for a capital felony committed by a
person who is younger than 18 years of age at the time of
committing the felony.

HB 687            Danburg / et al.
Relating to the repeal of the criminal offense of homosexual
conduct.

HB 1373            Danburg
Relating to conduct constituting consent for the purposes of the
prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

HB 2042            Danburg / et al.
Relating to proving a lack of consent in the prosecution of the
offense of sexual assault.

HB 1554            Reyna, Arthur / et al.
Relating to the punishment of the offense of assault.

HB 141            Wise
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the offenses of
kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping.

HB 1581            Coleman / et al.
Relating to determining whether a criminal defendant is insane or
otherwise incompetent to stand trial.

HB 1805            Brown, Betty
Relating to notice of plea bargains and the dismissal of charges in
a criminal case.

HB 2256            McCall
Relating to the expunction or clarification of certain criminal
history record information.

HB 2865            Sadler
Relating to the summoning of potential grand jurors.

HB 293            Thompson
Relating to grand jury proceedings.

HB 3114            Ritter
Relating to conditions of community supervision imposed on certain
felons.

HB 1963            Hochberg
Relating to the aggregation of amounts involved in the offense of
breach of computer security to determine punishment.

HB 3468            Hochberg
Relating to the punishment of certain offenses involving the breach
of computer security.

HB 3622            Hochberg
Relating to the creation, powers, and duties of the Texas Innocence
Commission; providing penalties.

HB 2085            Gallego
Relating to the limits on compensation paid by the state to certain
victims of crime.

HB 2890            McClendon
Relating to the creation of an offense prohibiting certain persons
in custody from contacting their victims.

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