By Place                                              H.B. No. 1393
       74R5494 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the impaneling of a new jury after a jury fails to
    1-3  return a verdict.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 45.40, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 45.40.  MISTRIAL.  A jury shall be discharged if it
    1-8  fails to agree to a verdict after being kept together a reasonable
    1-9  time.  If there be time left on the same day, another jury may be
   1-10  impaneled to try the cause, or the justice may adjourn for not more
   1-11  than 30 <two> days and again impanel a jury to try such cause.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.