PDH S.B. 136 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 136 By: Harris Judicial Affairs 4-7-1999 Engrossed BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, a proposed juror reports for jury service and is provided a form letter that allows a juror to donate the juror's reimbursements to any one of over 200 local child welfare boards. Although the county is required to provide the form letter, as a matter of procedure several counties do not adequately inform prospective jurors of the form letter. S.B. 136 specifies that the counties hand deliver the form letter to prospective jurors. In addition, this bill requires the counties to collect the prospective juror's form and process the form accordingly. Furthermore, S.B. 136 requires a county to personally provide a juror with a donation form letter, collect the form letter, and deposit the donation into a child welfare fund. 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 61.003, Government Code, to require each prospective juror reporting for jury service to be personally provided a form letter which, when signed, directs the juror's reimbursement to be donated to the child welfare board of the county appointed under Section 264.005 (County Child Welfare Boards), Family Code, rather than a service fund under the chapter. Requires the county treasurer or a designated county employee to collect each form letter and to deposit any donations made to the county child welfare board into a prescribed and authorized county child welfare fund. Adds new Subsection (b) and redesignates existing Subsections (b) and (c) to Subsections (c) and (d). Makes conforming changes. SECTION 2.Effective date: September 1, 1999. Makes application of this Act prospective. SECTION 3. Emergency clause.