Texas House Committee assignments came out this morning. See the criminal-justice related committee memberships listed below the jump. The big news on the criminal-justice front, though, was the creation of a Select Committee on Criminal Procedure Reform, a five-member committee (see here, p. 43) whose charge reads: "The Code of Criminal Procedure ... has not been rewritten since 1965. As a result, it has become overcrowded, disorganized and difficult to navigate, such that there is a pressing need to consider rewriting and reorganizing it. Therefore the select committee shall study and make recommendations regarding the reorganization and revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure." Presumably this rewriting will take place in the interim and result in recommendations to the 84th Texas Legislature in 2015. Here's its membership:
Select Committee on Criminal Procedure Reform
Chair: Debbie Riddle
Stefani Carter
Abel Herrero
Joseph Moody
Tan Parker
And here are the membership lists for the three main standing committees related to criminal justice topics:
Corrections
Chair: Tan Parker (see his press release)
Vice Chair: James White
Alma Allen
Debbie Riddle
Toni Rose
J.D. Sheffield
Steve Toth
Chairman Parker is new to the job but was on the Corrections Committee last session.
Criminal Jurisprudence
Chair: Abel Herrero
Vice Chair: Stefani Carter
Joe Moody
Lon Burnam
Bryan Hughes
Jeff Leach
Matt Schaefer
Steve Toth
Vice Chair Stefani Carter is the only member who was on the committee last session, though Joe Moody was on the committee in 2009. And finally, Homeland Security and Public Safety has a new chair:
Homeland Security and Public Safety
Chair: Joe Pickett
Vice Chair: Allen Fletcher
Tony Dale
George Lavender
Phillip Cortez
Dan Flynn
Tim Kleinschmidt
Kenneth Sheets
Ron Simmons
See the complete lists by committee and by member. Here we go, folks.
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