Bill Text: TX HB3170 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

---

Bill Title: Relating to persons excused or disqualified from jury service.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3170 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3170-Comm_Sub.html

---

83R23465 ATP-D
By: Bohac H.B. No. 3170
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3170:
By: King of Hemphill C.S.H.B. No. 3170

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to persons excused or disqualified from jury service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 62.113(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) On the third business day of each month, the clerk shall
send a copy of the list of persons excused or disqualified because
of citizenship in the previous month to:
(1) the voter registrar of the county;
(2) the county election official;
(3) the secretary of state; and
(4) [(3)] the county or district attorney, as
applicable, for an investigation of whether the person committed an
offense under Section 13.007 or 64.012, Election Code, or other
law.
SECTION 2. Section 16.0332(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) After the registrar receives a list under Section 18.068
of this code or Section 62.113, Government Code, of persons excused
or disqualified from jury service because of citizenship status or
receives notice from any governmental agency that a voter has
acknowledged that the voter is not a citizen of the United States,
the registrar shall deliver to each registered voter whose name
appears on the list or about whom notice was received a written
notice requiring the voter to submit to the registrar proof of
United States citizenship in the form of a certified copy of the
voter's birth certificate, United States passport, or certificate
of naturalization or any other form prescribed by the secretary of
state. The notice to the voter shall be delivered by forwardable
mail to the mailing address on the voter's registration application
and to any new address of the voter known to the registrar.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.