1-1  By:  Cuellar of Webb (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)     H.B. No. 3168
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to certain jury panels in Webb County.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 25.2422, Government Code, is amended by
   1-11  adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
   1-12        (k)  A meeting of district judges in Webb County held under
   1-13  Section 62.016(a) to determine the number of prospective jurors
   1-14  that are necessary for each week of the year may include the county
   1-15  court at law judges.  The judges may designate a county court at
   1-16  law judge to be the judge to whom the general jury panels report
   1-17  for jury service under Section 62.016(c).
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.
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