HBA-RBT C.S.H.B. 82 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 82 By: Solomons Judicial Affairs 4/19/1999 Committee Report (Substituted) BACKGROUND and PURPOSE Some citizens of a county are called upon several times within a year to serve on a jury. Others are not called upon for several years. C.S.H.B. 82 removes a person who appears for jury service in a county with a population of 250,000 or more from the jury wheel for three years unless the jury wheel has been reconstituted after the person served as a petit juror. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 62.001, Government Code, by amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (j), to delete language limiting the application of Subsection (i) to a county with a population of less than 105,000 in which the municipality with the largest population is located in more than one county. Provides that a person who is summoned and appears for jury service in a county with a population of 250,000 or more must be removed from the jury wheel for three years unless the jury wheel is reconstituted. Provides that this provision applies whether or not the person actually served on a jury. SECTION 2. Amends Section 62.106, Government Code, by adding Subsection (8), to authorize a person to establish an exemption from jury service if the person is summoned for service in a county with a population of at least 250,000 and the person has served as a petit juror in the county in the last three years unless the jury wheel is reconstituted after the person served as a petit juror. SECTION 3. Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 4. Makes application of this Act prospective. SECTION 5. Emergency clause. COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE The substitute differs from the original in SECTION 1 by deleting language limiting the application of Subsection (i) to a county with a population of less than 105,000 in which the municipality with the largest population is located in more than one county. The original bill did not address Subsection (i). The substitute differs from the original in SECTION 1 by adding a provision that if the jury wheel is reconstituted a person is once again placed on the jury wheel even if the person has served as a petit juror within the last three years. The substitute makes conforming and nonsubstantive changes in SECTION 2.