SENATE
                          NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM Or upon adjournment
             Tuesday, March 25, 2003

PLACE: E1.016

CHAIR: Senator John Whitmire

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The following bills to be considered:


SB 600            West
Relating to compensation and expense reimbursement of appointed
counsel in certain habeas corpus cases.


SB 601            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the authority of the governor to grant one or more
reprieves in a capital case.


SB 727            Staples
Relating to compensating counties for the cost of appointing
attorneys to represent death row inmates in habeas corpus
proceedings.


SB 825            Whitmire
Relating to amending Section 22.011, Penal Code, to make it a
criminal offense for certain persons employed by long-term care
facilities to have nonconsensual sex with persons residing in those
facilities; providing criminal penalties.


SB 826            Whitmire
Relating to amending chapter 49, Code of Criminal Procedure, to
require timely provision of notice and a report to the attorney
general regarding the death of any person residing in an
institution and to amending chapter 38, Penal Code, to make it a
criminal offense to fail to timely provide such notice and a
report; providing a criminal penalty.


SB 827            Whitmire
Relating to amending Section 22.041, Penal Code, to make it a
criminal offense to abandon or endanger an elderly individual or a
disabled individual and to make it a criminal offense to fail to
provide adequate food, medical care, or shelter to a child, elderly
individual, or disabled individual; providing a criminal penalty.


SB 840            Whitmire
Relating to authority of certain peace officers to make arrests
outside their jurisdictions.


SB 1045            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the creation of a commission to investigate and prevent
wrongful convictions.


SB 1224            Ellis, Rodney / et al.
Relating to representation of applicants for writs of habeas corpus
in cases involving the death penalty.


SB 1607            Ellis, Rodney
Relating to regulation of state crime laboratories.


SJR 12            Shapleigh
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a moratorium on
the execution of persons convicted of capital offenses.


SJR 28            Ellis, Rodney
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governor to
grant one or more reprieves in a capital case.

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