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         By Solomons                                            H.B. No. 236

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 236:

         By Chisum                                          C.S.H.B. No. 236

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to distances traveled by jurors.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 62.016, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:

 1-6           (k)  A person who is required to appear at the time and

 1-7     place for appearance stated in the jury summons and is then

 1-8     required to travel more than 10 miles on the same day to the

 1-9     location where the proceedings are held may not be required to

1-10     return to the place for appearance stated in the jury summons for

1-11     participation in another proceeding.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-13     applies only to a person serving on a jury under a summons issued

1-14     on or after that date or responding to a jury summons issued on or

1-15     after that date.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.