1-1           By:  Brown                                       S.B. No. 756

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1997; February 27, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     March 11, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,

 1-5     Nays 0; March 11, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to certain juror donations used to compensate victims of

 1-9     crime.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 61.003, Government Code,

1-12     is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  Each [A person responsible under Section 62.013 or

1-14     62.014 for summoning prospective jurors to appear for jury service

1-15     shall provide to each] prospective juror reporting for jury service

1-16     shall be provided a form letter that when signed by the prospective

1-17     juror directs the county treasurer to donate all [or part] of the

1-18     prospective juror's reimbursement for jury service to the

1-19     compensation to victims of crime fund under Subchapter B, Chapter

1-20     56, Code of Criminal Procedure.

1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-22     applies only to donations from jurors appearing in response to a

1-23     summons issued on or after that date.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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