SRC-AXB S.B. 243 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 243
76R4591 DB-DBy: Ellis
Jurisprudence
2/18/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the Department of Public Safety is required to provide the
secretary of state with a list of citizens' names used to reconstitute the
jury wheel, including the citizenship status of those names. Because
driver's license lists and voter registration lists have been combined,
people with numerous licenses can receive duplicate or unnecessary
summonses.  This bill would remove the names of nonUnited States citizens
and duplicate names from the jury wheel, thereby increasing its efficiency. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 243 requires the Department of Public Safety to inform
the secretary of state of the citizenship status of certain people by
simply excluding their names from a list used to reconstitute a jury wheel,
rather than indicating their citizenship status on that list.  S.B. 243
also requires duplicate names of registrants to be excluded. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 62.001(f), Government Code, to require the list
furnished by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to exclude the names of
non-United States citizens, and duplicate names of registrants.  Deletes
the requirement that DPS inform the secretary of state of the citizenship
status of names required under Subsection (a)(2). 

SECTION 2.Emergency clause.
  Effective date:  upon passage.