1-1     By:  Solis (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                    H.B. No. 2145

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;

 1-3     April 23, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to removal of certain persons from the pool of prospective

 1-9     jurors.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Section 62.0145 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 62.0145.  REMOVAL OF CERTAIN PERSONS FROM POOL OF

1-14     PROSPECTIVE JURORS.  If a written summons for jury service sent by

1-15     a sheriff, constable, or bailiff is undeliverable, the county or

1-16     district clerk may remove from the jury wheel the jury wheel card

1-17     for the person summoned or remove the person's name from the record

1-18     of names for selection of persons for jury service under Section

1-19     62.011.

1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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