Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 54.03. Emergency Clause
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Art. 54.03. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. The fact that the laws
relating to criminal procedure in this State have not been
completely revised and re-codified in more than a century past and
the further fact that the administration of justice, in the field of
criminal law, has undergone changes, through judicial construction
and interpretation of constitutional provisions, which have been,
in certain instances, modified or nullified, as the case may be,
necessitates important changes requiring the revision or
modernization of the laws relating to criminal procedure, and the
further fact that it is desirous and desirable to strengthen, and to
conform, various provisions in such laws to current interpretation
and application, emphasizes the importance of this legislation and
all of which, together with the crowded condition of the calendar in
both Houses, create an emergency and an imperative public necessity
that the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three
several days be suspended, and said Rule is hereby suspended, and
that this Act shall take effect and be in force and effect from and
after 12 o'clock Meridian on the 1st day of January, Anno Domini,
1966, and it is so enacted.
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722.
Article: 52.05 52.06 52.07 52.08 52.09 54.01 54.02 54.03 55.01 55.02 55.03 55.04 55.05 55.06 56.01
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