Amend HB 4749 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent sections of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 62.014(a), Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a)  [In a county with at least nine district courts,] A [the] district judge [judges] may direct that prospective jurors be summoned for jury service by the clerk, the sheriff, or a bailiff, or an assistant or deputy bailiff, in charge of the central jury room and the general panel of the county, if the jurisdiction served by the judge includes a county:

(2)  with a population of less than 1,000.