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.