1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 182
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 26, 1993; January 27, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 March 9, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; March 9, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Harris of Tarrant
1-16 Amend S.B. No. 182 on line 40, after "regular" add "or
1-17 special".
1-18 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-19 AN ACT
1-20 relating to the exemption from jury service for legislative
1-21 officers and employees.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Section 62.106, Government Code, is amended to
1-24 read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 62.106. Exemption From Jury Service. A person
1-26 qualified to serve as a petit juror may establish an exemption from
1-27 jury service if he:
1-28 (1) is over 65 years of age;
1-29 (2) has legal custody of a child or children younger
1-30 than 10 years of age and his service on the jury requires leaving
1-31 the child or children without adequate supervision;
1-32 (3) is a student of a public or private secondary
1-33 school;
1-34 (4) is a person enrolled and in actual attendance at
1-35 an institution of higher education;
1-36 (5) is an officer or an employee of the senate, the
1-37 house of representatives, or any department, commission, board,
1-38 office, or other agency in the legislative branch of state
1-39 government and the date the person is to appear for jury service is
1-40 during a regular session of the legislature;
1-41 (6) is summoned for service in a county with a
1-42 population of at least 200,000, unless that county uses a jury plan
1-43 under Section 62.011 and the period authorized under Section
1-44 62.011(b)(6) exceeds two years, and he has served as a petit juror
1-45 in the county during the 24-month period preceding the date he is
1-46 to appear for jury service; or
1-47 (7) is the primary caretaker of a person who is an
1-48 invalid unable to care for himself.
1-49 SECTION 2. This Act applies to persons summoned to appear
1-50 for jury service on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-56 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-57 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 Austin,
1-60 Texas
1-61 March 9, 1993
1-62 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-63 President of the Senate
1-64 Sir:
1-65 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B. No.
1-66 182, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-67 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-68 pass, as amended, and be printed.
2-1 Henderson,
2-2 Chairman
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 WITNESSES
2-5 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 182.