By Kamel H.B. No. 2951 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to electronic selection and summoning of a "special 1-3 venire" jury panel in a capital case. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 34.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Article 34.01. Special Venire. A "special venire" is a writ 1-8 issued in a capital case by order of the district court, commanding 1-9 the sheriff to summon either verbally or by mail such a number of 1-10 persons, not less than 50, as the court may order, or as authorized 1-11 by a plan for electronic jury selection by Section 62.011, 1-12 Government Code, to appear before the court on a day named in the 1-13 writ from whom the jury for the trial of such case is to be 1-14 selected. Where as many as one hundred jurors have been selected 1-15 in such county for regular service for the week in which such 1-16 capital case is set for trial, the judge of the court having 1-17 jurisdiction of a capital case in which a motion for a special 1-18 venire has been made, shall grant or refuse such motion for a 1-19 special venire, and upon such refusal require the case to be tried 1-20 by regular jurors summoned for service in such county for the week 1-21 in which such capital case is set for trial and such additional 1-22 talesman as may be summoned by the sheriff upon order of the court 1-23 as provided in Article 34.02 of this Code, or as authorized by a 2-1 plan for electronic jury selection by Section 62.011, Government 2-2 Code, but the clerk of such court shall furnish the defendant or 2-3 his counsel a list of the persons summoned as provided in Article 2-4 34.04. 2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.