1-1 By: Kamel (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 2951 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 Criminal 1-4 Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to mechanical or electronic selection of a "special 1-9 venire" jury panel in a capital case. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Chapter 34, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-12 amended by adding Article 34.05 to read as follows: 1-13 Art. 34.05. MECHANICAL OR ELECTRONIC SELECTION METHOD. A 1-14 mechanical or electronic method of jury selection as provided by 1-15 Chapter 62, Government Code, may be used under this chapter. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-22 * * * * *