SBs the Texas House should pass immediately

Now that the Texas House of Representatives is through with its last-minute rush of its own legislation, it can get down to considering senate bills. Here are several criminal-justice reform bills over from the Senate that Grits has been tracking which are already in the House Calendars Committee and ready for a vote by the full body. All five passed out of their respective House committees unanimously and deserve action on the floor as soon as possible:

• SB 1611 (Ellis/Duncan): One-sided criminal discovery reform requiring open files of prosecutors. This is the so-called "Michael Morton Act."

• SB 1238 (Hinojosa): Expanding jurisdiction of the Forensic Science Commission to overturn portions of a limiting Attorney General's opinion.

• SB 344 (Whitmire): Clarifies standards for courts to grant habeas corpus relief in junk science cases. (BTW, thanks to Gene Wu for signing on as a coauthor with Sylvester Turner on the House version).

• SB 825 (Whitmire): Eliminating secret "private" sanctions by the state bar for sustained grievances against prosecutors for Brady violations.

• SB 1114 (Whtimire): Limiting Class C tickets in schools.

I'm sure there are more but these seem like no-brainers.