By Solis of Bexar H.B. No. 3331 76R9094 DB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the confidentiality of a juror's or a potential juror's 1-3 personal information. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 62, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 62.0142 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 62.0142. JUROR CONFIDENTIALITY. (a) In this section, 1-8 "personal information" includes a juror's or a potential juror's: 1-9 (1) name; 1-10 (2) home and mailing addresses; 1-11 (3) phone number; and 1-12 (4) place of employment. 1-13 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), personal 1-14 information obtained through the juror selection process under this 1-15 chapter about a juror or a potential juror is confidential and is 1-16 not subject to Chapter 552. The information is not a judicial 1-17 record for the purposes of the Rules of Judicial Administration. 1-18 (c) Personal information obtained through the juror 1-19 selection process under this chapter about a juror or a potential 1-20 juror may be disclosed to: 1-21 (1) a judge assigned to hear a cause of action in 1-22 which a person is a juror or a potential juror; and 1-23 (2) court personnel. 1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.