83rd Legislative Session Summary

• Indigent Defense Budget Summary for FY 2014/2015
• SB 1 - General Appropriations Act (excerpts pertaining to Texas Indigent Defense Commission)
• HB 1318
• HB 1245
• SB 1044
  
  
• House and Senate Resolutions commemorating the 50th anniversary of landmark Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright: HR808 (and archive video, go to 45:25-51:16) and SR479 (and archive video, go to 5:05-11:15)
• Texas Judicial Council Resolution in support of additional state funding for indigent defense
• Message For You from Executive Director
• Legislative Appropriations Request submitted to Office of the Governor BPP and LBB on 8/16/12
• Indigent Defense Workshop: Preview of the 83rd Legislature and Recent Developments, November 13, 2012 - agenda, PowerPoint and audio recording
• Texas Legislature Online
• Texas Judicial Council's legislative webpage
• Other criminal justice organizations' legislative information
• Legislative Policy of the Commission
• For all other legislative inquires, email Wesley Shackelford, Special Counsel/Deputy Director, or call him at 512.936.6997
• To track legislation see Telicon Bill Status Report below

Members of the Commission who are in the Texas State Senate and House of Representatives

Senator Royce West
Chair, Senate Jurisprudence Committee

Senator John Whitmire
Chair, Senate Criminal Justice Committee

Representative Roberto Alonzo

Representative Abel Herrero,
Chair, House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee

Texas indigent defense legislative information from previous sessions:
82nd Legislature
81st Legislature
80th Legislature
79th Legislature

INDIGENT DEFENSE RELATED BILLS
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HB 577

Guillen, Ryan(D) Ellis, Rodney(D)

Relating to the representation of certain applicants for writs of habeas corpus in cases involving the death penalty.

HB 1025

Pitts, Jim(R) Williams, Tommy(R)

Relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations.

HB 1318

Turner, Sylvester(D) Whitmire, John(D)

Relating to the duration of a youth's detention following a detention hearing and the appointment of counsel for that hearing for certain youths.

SB 1044

Rodriguez, Jose(D) Walle, Amando(D)

Relating to access to criminal history record information by a public defender's office and the office of capital writs and to an exemption for those offices from fees imposed for processing inquiries for that information.

SB 1611

Ellis, Rodney(D) Thompson, Senfronia(D)

Relating to discovery in a criminal case.

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