By Saunders, Kamel                                    H.B. No. 1388
       74R5158 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain information collected in the jury selection
    1-3  process.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 62.011(b), Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  A plan authorized by this section for the selection of
    1-8  names of prospective jurors must:
    1-9              (1)  be proposed in writing to the commissioners court
   1-10  by a majority of the district and criminal district judges of the
   1-11  county at a meeting of the judges called for that purpose;
   1-12              (2)  specify that the source of names of persons for
   1-13  jury service is the same as that provided by Section 62.001 and
   1-14  that the names of persons listed in a register of persons exempt
   1-15  from jury service may not be used in preparing the record of names
   1-16  from which a jury list is selected, as provided by Sections 62.108
   1-17  and 62.109;
   1-18              (3)  provide a fair, impartial, and objective method of
   1-19  selecting names of persons for jury service with the aid of
   1-20  electronic or mechanical equipment;
   1-21              (4)  designate the district clerk as the officer in
   1-22  charge of the selection process and define his duties; and
   1-23              (5)  <specify that a true and complete written list of
   1-24  the names and addresses of persons summoned to begin jury service
    2-1  on a particular date shall be filed of record with the county clerk
    2-2  at least 10 days before that date; and>
    2-3              <(6)>  provide that the method of selection either will
    2-4  use the same record of names for the selection of persons for jury
    2-5  service until that record is exhausted or will use the same record
    2-6  of names for a period of time specified by the plan.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.