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1		-	By: Moody (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 510
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2015;
3		-	May 11, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
4		-	Justice; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to disclosure of certain information about expert
12	6		witnesses in a criminal case.
13	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	8		SECTION 1. Article 39.14(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
15	9		amended to read as follows:
16	10		(b) On [motion of] a party's request made not later than the
17	11		30th day before the date that jury selection in the trial is
18	12		scheduled to begin or, in a trial without a jury, the presentation
19	13		of evidence is scheduled to begin, the party receiving the request
20	14		shall [party and on notice to the other parties, the court in which
21	15		an action is pending may order one or more of the other parties to]
22	16		disclose to the requesting party [making the motion] the name and
23	17		address of each person the disclosing [other] party may use at trial
24	18		to present evidence under Rules 702, 703, and 705, Texas Rules of
25	19		Evidence. Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, the
26	20		disclosure must be made in writing in hard copy form or by
27	21		electronic means [The court shall specify in the order the time and
28	22		manner in which the other party must make the disclosure to the
29	23		moving party, but in specifying the time in which the other party
30	24		shall make disclosure the court shall require the other party to
31	25		make the disclosure] not later than the 20th day before the date
32	26		that jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin or, in a
33	27		trial without a jury, the presentation of evidence is scheduled to
34	28		begin. On motion of a party and on notice to the other parties, the
35	29		court may order an earlier time at which one or more of the other
36	30		parties must make the disclosure to the requesting party [begins].
37	31		SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the
38	32		prosecution of an offense committed on or after the effective date
39	33		of this Act. The prosecution of an offense committed before the
40	34		effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
41	35		date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in
42	36		effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense
43	37		is committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of
44	38		the offense occurs before the effective date.
45	39		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	40	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	41	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	42	+	I certify that H.B. No. 510 was passed by the House on May 6,
	43	+	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	44	+	voting.
	45	+	______________________________
	46	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	47	+	I certify that H.B. No. 510 was passed by the Senate on May
	48	+	22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	49	+	______________________________
	50	+	Secretary of the Senate
	51	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	52	+	Date
	53	+	_____________________
	54	+	Governor