1-1  By:  Saunders, Kamel (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)         H.B. No. 1388
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to certain information collected in the jury selection
    1-9  process.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 62.011(b), Government Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  A plan authorized by this section for the selection of
   1-14  names of prospective jurors must:
   1-15              (1)  be proposed in writing to the commissioners court
   1-16  by a majority of the district and criminal district judges of the
   1-17  county at a meeting of the judges called for that purpose;
   1-18              (2)  specify that the source of names of persons for
   1-19  jury service is the same as that provided by Section 62.001 and
   1-20  that the names of persons listed in a register of persons exempt
   1-21  from jury service may not be used in preparing the record of names
   1-22  from which a jury list is selected, as provided by Sections 62.108
   1-23  and 62.109;
   1-24              (3)  provide a fair, impartial, and objective method of
   1-25  selecting names of persons for jury service with the aid of
   1-26  electronic or mechanical equipment;
   1-27              (4)  designate the district clerk as the officer in
   1-28  charge of the selection process and define his duties; and
   1-29              (5)  <specify that a true and complete written list of
   1-30  the names and addresses of persons summoned to begin jury service
   1-31  on a particular date shall be filed of record with the county clerk
   1-32  at least 10 days before that date; and>
   1-33              <(6)>  provide that the method of selection either will
   1-34  use the same record of names for the selection of persons for jury
   1-35  service until that record is exhausted or will use the same record
   1-36  of names for a period of time specified by the plan.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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