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Amend SB 834 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, strike the recital (page 1, lines 19 and 20), and substitute the following:
Article 19.42, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(2) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in amended Article 19.42, Code of Criminal Procedure (page 1, between lines 27 and 28), insert the following:
(c) On request, the court shall permit disclosure of a list of the names, races, ethnicities, and genders of the grand jurors to an attorney representing a party to the proceeding for the purpose of a constitutional challenge to the array after indictment. On disclosing the list of the names, races, ethnicities, or genders of the grand jurors, the court shall order the attorney representing a party to the proceeding and any investigator, expert, consulting legal counsel, secretary, or paralegal for the attorney not to disclose the names, races, ethnicities, or genders of the grand jurors to a party to the proceeding or to any other person.