Bill Text: TX HB991 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the selection and summons of prospective grand jurors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB991 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB991-Introduced.html
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| By: Thompson of Brazoria | H.B. No. 991 | |
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| relating to the selection and summons of prospective grand jurors. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 19.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 19.01. SELECTION AND SUMMONS OF PROSPECTIVE GRAND | ||
| JURORS. The district judge shall direct that 20 to 250 [ |
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| prospective grand jurors be selected and summoned, with return on | ||
| summons, in the same manner as for the selection and summons of | ||
| panels for the trial of civil cases in the district courts. The | ||
| judge shall try the qualifications for and excuses from service as a | ||
| grand juror and impanel the completed grand jury as provided by this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. A district judge who on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act directs that prospective grand jurors be selected | ||
| and summoned shall comply with the requirements of Article 19.01, | ||
| Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act. A district | ||
| judge who before the effective date of this Act directs that | ||
| prospective grand jurors be selected and summoned shall comply with | ||
| Article 19.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, as it existed | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
