81R38591 SJM-D
By: McClendon H.R. No. 2965
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of
Texas, 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, That House Rule 13,
Section 9(a), be suspended in part as provided by House Rule 13,
Section 9(f), to enable the conference committee appointed to
resolve the differences on House Bill 2139, relating to the
establishment, operation, and funding of victim-offender mediation
programs, to consider and take action on the following matter:
House Rule 13, Sections 9(a)(1), (2), and (3), are suspended
to permit the committee to change and omit text not in disagreement
and to add text in proposed SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Article
56.22(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, to read as follows:
(d) A pretrial victim-offender mediation must be conducted
by a court-appointed mediator who meets the training requirements
provided by Sections 154.052(a) and (b), Civil Practice and
Remedies Code. Neither the attorney representing the state nor the
attorney representing the defendant in the criminal action may
serve as a mediator under the pretrial victim-offender mediation
program.
Explanation: The alteration of text is necessary to require
that a person appointed by the court to conduct pretrial
victim-offender mediations has completed mediation training.