By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 654 74R387 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to permitting a sequestered juror to vote on election day. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 276, Election Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 276.009 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 276.009. VOTING BY SEQUESTERED JUROR. (a) The judge 1-7 of a court that has issued an order that a jury not be allowed to 1-8 separate shall permit a juror reasonable time to vote on election 1-9 day. 1-10 (b) The court may provide the juror with a means of 1-11 transportation to and from the appropriate polling place. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.