S.B. No. 12 AN ACT 1-1 relating to access to personal information about jurors in a 1-2 criminal trial. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 35, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Article 35.29 to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 35.29. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT JURORS. Information 1-7 collected by the court or by a prosecuting attorney during the jury 1-8 selection process about a person who serves as a juror, including 1-9 the juror's home address, home telephone number, social security 1-10 number, driver's license number, and other personal information, is 1-11 confidential and may not be disclosed by the court, the prosecuting 1-12 attorney, the defense counsel, or any court personnel except on 1-13 application by a party in the trial or on application by a bona 1-14 fide member of the news media acting in such capacity to the court 1-15 in which the person is serving or did serve as a juror. On a 1-16 showing of good cause, the court shall permit disclosure of the 1-17 information sought. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.