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.