81R38590 SJM-D
By: Hinojosa S.R. No. 1083
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 81st
Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 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:
Senate Rules 12.03(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.