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.