By Ellis                                               S.B. No. 243
         76R4591 DB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the duty of the Department of Public Safety to remove
 1-3     certain names from a list used to reconstitute the jury wheel.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 62.001(f), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (f)  The Department of Public Safety shall furnish a list to
 1-8     the secretary of state that shows the names required under
 1-9     Subsection (a)(2) and that contains any of the information
1-10     enumerated in Subsection (c) that is available to the department,
1-11     including [citizenship status and] county of residence.  The list
1-12     shall exclude the names of convicted felons, persons who are not
1-13     citizens of the United States, if that information is available,
1-14     and persons residing outside the county and the duplicate name of
1-15     any registrant.  The department shall furnish the list on or before
1-16     the first Monday in October of each year.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.