By Dutton H.B. No. 1504
75R6275 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the reimbursement of jurors.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 61.001(a) and (b), Government Code, are
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Each grand juror or petit juror in a civil or criminal
1-7 case in a district court, criminal district court, county court,
1-8 county court at law, or justice court is entitled to receive as
1-9 reimbursement for travel and other expenses $50 [an amount not less
1-10 than $6 nor more than $30] for each day or fraction of each day
1-11 served as a juror.
1-12 (b) A person who responds to the process of a court but is
1-13 excused from petit jury service by the court for any cause after
1-14 his voir dire examination is entitled to receive as reimbursement
1-15 for travel and other expenses $50 [an amount not less than $6 nor
1-16 more than $30] for each day or fraction of each day in attendance
1-17 in court in response to the process.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-19 applies only to a person serving on a jury under a summons issued
1-20 on or after that date or responding to a jury summons issued on or
1-21 after that date.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.