1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 203
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 9, 2001; January 11, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     February 13, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0;
 1-6     February 13, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 203                   By:  Duncan
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the summoning of potential grand jurors.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Articles 19.06 and 19.17, Code of Criminal
1-13     Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
1-14           Art. 19.06.  SHALL SELECT GRAND JURORS.  The jury
1-15     commissioners shall select not less than 15 nor more than 40 [20]
1-16     persons from the citizens of the county to be summoned as grand
1-17     jurors for the next term of court, or the term of court for which
1-18     said commissioners were selected to serve, as directed in the order
1-19     of the court selecting the commissioners.  The commissioners shall,
1-20     to the extent possible, select grand jurors who the commissioners
1-21     determine represent a broad cross-section of the population of the
1-22     county, considering the factors of race, sex, and age.
1-23           Art. 19.17.  FAILURE TO SELECT.  If for any reason a grand
1-24     jury shall not be selected or summoned prior to the commencement of
1-25     any term of court, or when none of those summoned shall attend, the
1-26     district judge may at any time after the commencement of the term,
1-27     in his discretion, direct a writ to be issued to the sheriff
1-28     commanding him to summon a jury commission, selected by the court,
1-29     which commission shall select 40 [twenty] persons, as provided by
1-30     law, who shall serve as grand jurors.
1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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