77R9446 KEL-D
By Duncan S.B. No. 203
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 203:
By Keel C.S.S.B. No. 203
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the summoning of potential grand jurors.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Articles 19.06 and 19.17, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 19.06. SHALL SELECT GRAND JURORS. The jury
1-7 commissioners shall select not less than 15 nor more than 40 [20]
1-8 persons from the citizens of the county to be summoned as grand
1-9 jurors for the next term of court, or the term of court for which
1-10 said commissioners were selected to serve, as directed in the order
1-11 of the court selecting the commissioners. The commissioners shall,
1-12 to the extent possible, select grand jurors who the commissioners
1-13 determine represent a broad cross-section of the population of the
1-14 county, considering the factors of race, sex, and age.
1-15 Art. 19.17. FAILURE TO SELECT. If for any reason a grand
1-16 jury shall not be selected or summoned prior to the commencement of
1-17 any term of court, or when none of those summoned shall attend, the
1-18 district judge may at any time after the commencement of the term,
1-19 in his discretion, direct a writ to be issued to the sheriff
1-20 commanding him to summon a jury commission, selected by the court,
1-21 which commission shall select not more than 40 [twenty] persons, as
1-22 provided by law, who shall serve as grand jurors.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.