By Brown S.B. No. 756
75R7337 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain juror donations used to compensate victims of
1-3 crime.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.003(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Each [A person responsible under Section 62.013 or
1-8 62.014 for summoning prospective jurors to appear for jury service
1-9 shall provide to each] prospective juror reporting for jury service
1-10 shall be provided a form letter that when signed by the prospective
1-11 juror directs the county treasurer to donate all [or part] of the
1-12 prospective juror's reimbursement for jury service to the
1-13 compensation to victims of crime fund under Subchapter B, Chapter
1-14 56, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-16 applies only to donations from jurors appearing in response to a
1-17 summons issued on or after that date.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.