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.