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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