By Haywood S.B. No. 274 74R2522 NSC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to access to personal information about jurors. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 35.29, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 35.29. Personal information about jurors. Information 1-7 collected by the court or by a prosecuting attorney during the jury 1-8 selection process about a person who serves as a juror, including 1-9 the juror's name, home address, home telephone number, social 1-10 security number, driver's license number, and other personal 1-11 information, is confidential and may not be disclosed by the court, 1-12 the prosecuting attorney, the defense counsel, or any court 1-13 personnel except on application by a party in the trial or on 1-14 application by a bona fide member of the news media acting in such 1-15 capacity to the court in which the person is serving or did serve 1-16 as a juror. On a showing of good cause, the court shall permit 1-17 disclosure of the information sought. 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.