Code of Criminal Procedure – (2024 interim edition)

Name: Code of Criminal Procedure - (2024 interim edition)
SKU: 82467
Price: 53.00 USD
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TDCAA’s spiral-bound Code of Criminal Procedure (and Penal Code) are the only criminal code books that feature underline/strikethrough format with the most recent legislative changes, annotations to help explain court interpretation of the statutes, commentary from prosecutors who spent their time at the capitol, and spiral binding that allows the book to lie open flat.

While typically, TDCAA only publishes new editions of the CCP following a regular legislative session, we have published an interim edition for 2024. This edition first came about because of larger-than-usual output from the Texas Legislative Council’s ongoing code revision project, which made significant changes to five chapters of the CCP that become effective Jan. 1, 2025.

In the 2023 session, the code revision project tackled re-writing Chapters 2 (General Duties of Officers), 13 (Venue), 31 (Change of Venue), 45 (Justice and Municipal Courts), and 55 (Expunction of Criminal Records) of the CCP into new Chapters 2A, 2B, 13A, 31A, 45A, and 55A. The result was HB 4504 (effective Jan. 1, 2025), a 332-page bill that renumbers, reorganizes and updates those chapters with the goal of making them more logical and coherent without intending any substantive changes.

This book also includes the substantive changes to the remnants of Chapters 2, 13, 31, 45, and 55, and although the numbering scheme will lead to some confusing citations, all the changes made to those chapters will still be good law after January 1, 2025 (see Code Construction Act, Tex. Gov’t Code Ch. 311).

We have also included changes to the Code of Criminal Procedure from SB 4, passed in the 4th Special Session of 2023. This bill enacted a new chapter of the Texas Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure and amended other statutes in the Code of Criminal Procedure and Government Code, effective March 5, 2024. Note, however, that at press time for this book, the federal courts are considering whether these new immigration laws can be enforced.

TDCAA will return to its regularly scheduled publishing program in the summer of 2025, with new editions of all our code books that incorporate changes made in the 89th Legislative Session.

$53.00

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2024 Penal Code Changes

In its 3^rd Special Session of 2023, the 88^th Legislature passed SB 4, “relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties,” which amended 10 statutes in the Texas Penal Code and enacted one new statute, effective 2/6/24. The changes to those 11 statutes are included in the PDF posted here. The changes will also be incorporated into the next edition of TDCAA’s code books in summer 2025, along with any other changes made in the 89^th Session.

Penal Code SB4 (smuggling) 2024

Stays granted on SB 4 (4^th Special Session):

In its 4^th Special Session of 2023, the 88^th Legislature passed another version of SB 4, “relating to prohibitions on the illegal entry into or illegal presence in this state by a person who is an alien, the enforcement of those prohibitions and certain related orders, including immunity from liability and indemnification for enforcement actions, and authorizing or requiring under certain circumstances the removal of persons who violate those prohibitions; creating criminal offenses.” This bill enacted a new chapter of the Texas Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure and amended other statutes in the Code of Criminal Procedure and Government Code, effective 3/5/24.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether these new immigration laws can be enforced. Although those laws were set to take effect on March 5, 2024, a federal district judge granted a preliminary injunction against enforcing the provisions of SB 4. The 5^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then set aside the federal district court’s ruling, and an order issued by Justice Samuel Alito on March 4 has put the laws on hold until 5pm March 13 when the full Supreme Court is expected to weigh in.

Penal Code SB4 (illegal entry) 2024

Appellate Rules & Parole Laws

Because of the continued growth of codes amended by the legislature, the 2021 code books will omit the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure and parole laws (Gov’t Code ch. 508). We will post PDF versions of both, available to download for free here.

TRAP 2023

Parole 2023