HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF FORMAL MEETING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Jurisprudence
SUBCOMMITTEE: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

TIME & DATE: 11:30AM or upon adjournment
             Wednesday, March 24, 1999

PLACE: E2.018

CHAIR: Rep. Jim Dunnam

To Consider Bills Referred to Subcommittee

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HB 77            Gallego
Relating to the punishment for a capital offense.

HB 135            McClendon / et al.
Relating to the punishment for a capital offense.

HB 245            Gallego / et al.
Relating to procedures for determining whether a defendant
sentenced to death is incompetent for purposes of execution.

HB 1601            Ehrhardt
Relating to a determination of mental competency in the prosecution
of criminal cases and to the disposition of defendants found to be
incompetent before trial or after conviction.

HB 2121            Gallego
Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a person with mental
retardation who is convicted of a capital offense.

HB 2765            Moreno, Joe
Relating to amending the law regarding determinations of mental
competency in the prosecution of criminal cases to correct certain
references to other laws.

HB 3069            Hinojosa
Relating to the applicability of the death penalty to a capital
offense committed by a person with mental retardation.




Notice of this meeting was announced from the house floor.
Agenda information is not available.

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