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.