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.