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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