AN ACT

 1-1     relating to sources of names for the jury wheel.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsections (a), (d), and (f), Section 62.001,

 1-4     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:

 1-5           (a)  The jury wheel must be reconstituted by using, as the

 1-6     source:

 1-7                 (1)  the names of all persons on the current voter

 1-8     registration lists from all the precincts in the county; and

 1-9                 (2)  all names on a current list to be furnished by the

1-10     Department of Public Safety, showing the citizens of the county

1-11     who:

1-12                       (A)  hold a valid Texas driver's license or [and

1-13     the citizens of the county, other than persons who are disqualified

1-14     from jury service, who hold] a valid personal identification card

1-15     or certificate issued by the department; and

1-16                       (B)  are not disqualified from jury service under

1-17     Section 62.102(1), (2), or (7).

1-18           (d)  The list required by Subsection (c) may exclude, at the

1-19     option of the voter registrar of each county, [must exclude the

1-20     names of convicted felons and] the names of persons on the suspense

1-21     list maintained under Section 15.081, Election Code [exempt from

1-22     jury service under Sections 62.108 and 62.109].

1-23           (f)  The Department of Public Safety shall furnish a list to

 2-1     the secretary of state that shows the names required under

 2-2     Subsection (a)(2) and that contains any of the information

 2-3     enumerated in Subsection (c) that is available to the department,

 2-4     including citizenship status and county of residence.  The list

 2-5     shall exclude the names of convicted felons and persons residing

 2-6     outside the county.  The department shall furnish the list on or

 2-7     before the first Monday in October of each year.

 2-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

 2-9     applies only to lists furnished by the Department of Public Safety

2-10     of the State of Texas or a voter registrar on or after the

2-11     effective date of this Act.  Lists furnished by the department or a

2-12     voter registrar before the effective date of this Act are governed

2-13     by the law as it existed on the date the list was furnished, and

2-14     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

2-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 231 passed the Senate on

         February 17, 1997, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate

         concurred in House amendment on May 15, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 231 passed the House, with

         amendment, on May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor