AN ACT
1-1 relating to certain juror donations used to compensate victims of
1-2 crime.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 61.003, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Each [A person responsible under Section 62.013 or
1-7 62.014 for summoning prospective jurors to appear for jury service
1-8 shall provide to each] prospective juror reporting for jury service
1-9 shall be provided a form letter that when signed by the prospective
1-10 juror directs the county treasurer to donate all [or part] of the
1-11 prospective juror's reimbursement for jury service to the
1-12 compensation to victims of crime fund under Subchapter B, Chapter
1-13 56, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-15 applies only to donations from jurors appearing in response to a
1-16 summons issued on or after that date.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 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. 756 passed the Senate on
March 20, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 756 passed the House on
May 28, 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