By Solis of Bexar                                     H.B. No. 3331
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                                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.