1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1078
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to qualifications of jurors serving in the El Paso
1-9 municipal courts of record.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 30.00134, Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A juror in the municipal courts of record must have the
1-14 same qualifications as jurors in the other courts in El Paso County
1-15 as provided by Chapter 62 [and must be a registered voter in the
1-16 city]. Jurors in the municipal courts of record are subject to the
1-17 law governing exemption and excuse from jury service as are the
1-18 jurors in the other courts in the county.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-21 a person summoned to appear for jury service on or after the
1-22 effective date of this Act.
1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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