By: Gallego H.B. No. 321 73R294 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the number of jurors in a misdemeanor case tried in 1-3 district court. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 33.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 33.01. JURY; WHEN OF TWELVE, WHEN OF SIX. In the 1-8 district court, the jury shall consist of twelve qualified jurors 1-9 in a felony trial and six qualified jurors in a misdemeanor trial; 1-10 in the county court and inferior courts, the jury shall consist of 1-11 six qualified jurors. 1-12 SECTION 2. Article 33.011(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-13 amended to read as follows: 1-14 (a) In felony trials in district courts, the judge may 1-15 direct that not more than four jurors in addition to the regular 1-16 jury be called and impaneled to sit as alternate jurors. In 1-17 misdemeanor trials in district courts and in county courts, the 1-18 judge may direct that not more than two jurors in addition to the 1-19 regular jury be called and impaneled to sit as alternate jurors. 1-20 SECTION 3. Article 37.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-21 repealed. 1-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the date on which the 1-23 constitutional amendment proposed by __J.R. No. ___, 73rd 1-24 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, takes effect. If that 2-1 amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. 2-2 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.