By Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 183
74R724 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to sources of names for the jury wheel.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 62.001(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) The jury wheel must be reconstituted by using, as the
1-7 source:
1-8 (1) the names of all persons on the current voter
1-9 registration lists from all the precincts in the county; and
1-10 (2) all names on a current list to be furnished by the
1-11 Department of Public Safety, showing the citizens of the county
1-12 who:
1-13 (A) hold a valid Texas driver's license or <and
1-14 the citizens of the county, other than persons who are disqualified
1-15 from jury service, who hold> a valid personal identification card
1-16 or certificate issued by the department; and
1-17 (B) are not disqualified from jury service under
1-18 Section 62.102(1), (2), or (7).
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-20 applies only to lists furnished by the Department of Public Safety
1-21 on or after the effective date of this Act. Lists furnished by the
1-22 Department of Public Safety before the effective date of this Act
1-23 are governed by the law as it existed on the date the list was
1-24 furnished, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-1 purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.