By Duncan                                        S.B. No. 456

      75R983 MWV-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to sources of names for a jury wheel.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 62.001(a) and (c), Government Code, are

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  The jury wheel must be reconstituted by using[,] as the

 1-7     source[:]

 1-8                 [(1)]  the names of all persons on the current voter

 1-9     registration lists from all the precincts in the county[; and]

1-10                 [(2)  all names on a current list to be furnished by

1-11     the Department of Public Safety, showing the citizens of the county

1-12     who hold a valid Texas driver's license and the citizens of the

1-13     county, other than persons who are disqualified from jury service,

1-14     who hold a valid personal identification card or certificate issued

1-15     by the department].

1-16           (c)  Each year not later than the third Tuesday in November

1-17     or the date provided by Section 16.032, Election Code, for the

1-18     cancellation of voter registrations, whichever is earlier, the

1-19     county tax assessor-collector, sheriff, county clerk, and district

1-20     clerk in each county shall meet at the county courthouse and shall

1-21     reconstitute the jury wheel for the county.  Each official may be

1-22     represented by a deputy [voter registrar of each county shall

1-23     furnish to the secretary of state a current voter registration list

1-24     from all the precincts in the county that, except as provided by

 2-1     Subsection (d), includes:]

 2-2                 [(1)  the complete name, mailing address, date of

 2-3     birth, voter registration number, and precinct number for each

 2-4     voter;]

 2-5                 [(2)  if available, the Texas driver's license number

 2-6     or personal identification card or certificate number and social

 2-7     security number for each voter; and]

 2-8                 [(3)  any other information included on the voter

 2-9     registration list of the county].

2-10           SECTION 2.  Sections 62.001(d)-(i), Government Code, are

2-11     repealed.

2-12           SECTION 3.  Section 62.011(d), Government Code, is repealed.

2-13           SECTION 4.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-14           (b)  The changes in law made by this Act relating to jury

2-15     service apply only to persons summoned to appear for jury service

2-16     after a jury wheel has been constituted for the county under

2-17     Chapter 62, Government Code, as amended by this Act.  A jury wheel

2-18     constituted before the effective date of this Act may be used until

2-19     reconstitution of the jury wheel under Chapter 62, Government Code,

2-20     as amended by this Act.

2-21           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.