By Goodman                                             H.B. No. 769
         76R1752 DB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to sources of names for a jury wheel.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Sections 62.001(a), (c), and (d), Government
 1-5     Code, are amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The jury wheel must be reconstituted by using[,] as the
 1-7     source[:]
 1-8                 [(1)]  the names of all persons on the current voter
 1-9     registration lists from all the precincts in the county[; and]
1-10                 [(2)  all names on a current list to be furnished by
1-11     the Department of Public Safety, showing the citizens of the county
1-12     who:]
1-13                       [(A)  hold a valid Texas driver's license or a
1-14     valid personal identification card or certificate issued by the
1-15     department; and]
1-16                       [(B)  are not disqualified from jury service
1-17     under Section 62.102(1), (2), or (7)].
1-18           (c)  Each year not later than the third Tuesday in November
1-19     or the date provided by Section 16.032, Election Code, for the
1-20     cancellation of voter registrations, whichever is earlier, the
1-21     county tax assessor-collector, sheriff, county clerk, and district
1-22     clerk in each county shall meet at the county courthouse and shall
1-23     reconstitute the jury wheel for the county.  Each official may be
1-24     represented by a deputy [voter registrar of each county shall
 2-1     furnish to the secretary of state a current voter registration list
 2-2     from all the precincts in the county that, except as provided by
 2-3     Subsection (d), includes:]
 2-4                 [(1)  the complete name, mailing address, date of
 2-5     birth, voter registration number, and precinct number for each
 2-6     voter;]
 2-7                 [(2)  if available, the Texas driver's license number
 2-8     or personal identification card or certificate number and social
 2-9     security number for each voter; and]
2-10                 [(3)  any other information included on the voter
2-11     registration list of the county].
2-12           (d)  The voter registration list under [required by]
2-13     Subsection (a) [(c)] may exclude, at the option of the voter
2-14     registrar of each county, the names of persons on the suspense list
2-15     maintained under Section 15.081, Election Code.
2-16           SECTION 2.  Sections 62.001(e)-(i) and 62.011(d), Government
2-17     Code, are repealed.
2-18           SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-19           (b)  The changes in law made by this Act relating to jury
2-20     service apply only to persons summoned to appear for jury service
2-21     after a jury wheel has been constituted for the county under
2-22     Chapter 62, Government Code, as amended by this Act.  A jury wheel
2-23     constituted before the effective date of this Act may be used until
2-24     reconstitution of the jury wheel under Chapter 62, Government Code,
2-25     as amended by this Act.
2-26           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.