By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1078
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to qualifications of jurors serving in the El Paso
 1-2     municipal courts of record.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 30.00134, Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  A juror in the municipal courts of record must have the
 1-7     same qualifications as jurors in the other courts in El Paso County
 1-8     as provided by Chapter 62 [and must be a registered voter in the
 1-9     city].  Jurors in the municipal courts of record are subject to the
1-10     law governing exemption and excuse from jury service as are the
1-11     jurors in the other courts in the county.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-14     a person summoned to appear for jury service on or after the
1-15     effective date of this Act.
1-16           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.