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	S.B. No. 56



AN ACT



relating to requiring notice
before the amount of bail set in certain cases is reduced.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:


SECTION 1.  Chapter 17, Code
of Criminal Procedure, is amended by adding Article
17.091 to read as follows:


Art. 17.091.  NOTICE OF
CERTAIN BAIL REDUCTIONS REQUIRED.  Before a judge or
magistrate reduces the amount of bail set for a defendant
charged with an offense listed in Section 3g, Article
42.12, or an offense described by Article 62.01(5),
the judge or magistrate shall provide:


	(1)  to the attorney
representing the state, reasonable notice of the proposed
bail reduction; and


	(2)  on request
of the attorney representing the state or the defendant
or the defendant's counsel, an opportunity for a hearing
concerning the proposed bail reduction.


SECTION 2.  This Act takes
effect September 1, 2005.




______________________________	______________________________


President of the Senate
            Speaker of the House


I hereby certify that S.B.
No. 56 passed the Senate on April 7, 2005, by the following
vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________


    Secretary of the
Senate




I hereby certify that S.B.
No. 56 passed the House on May 18, 2005, by a non-record
vote.




______________________________


    Chief Clerk of
the House




Approved:


______________________________


             Date


______________________________


           Governor