By Gallegos                                           H.B. No. 2586
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of juries in criminal proceedings.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 26 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is
    1-5  amended by adding Article 35.262 to read as follows:
    1-6        Article 35.262.  Composition of the Jury.  The petit juries
    1-7  of this state shall reflect the populations of the counties from
    1-8  which the venire panels are drawn according to the most recent
    1-9  federal census.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-11  to jury panels chosen on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-12        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended and this rule is hereby suspended.