Bill Text: TX HB3633 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub


Bill Title: Relating to access to personal information about jurors in a criminal trial.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-07 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3633 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB3633-Comm_Sub.html
  83R19605 JRR-D
 
  By: Canales H.B. No. 3633
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3633:
 
  By:  Herrero C.S.H.B. No. 3633
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to access to personal information about jurors in a
  criminal trial.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 35.29, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 35.29.  PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT JURORS. (a)  
  Information collected by the court or by a prosecuting attorney
  during the jury selection process about a person who serves as a
  juror, including the juror's home address, home telephone number,
  social security number, driver's license number, and other personal
  information, is confidential and may not be disclosed  by the court,
  the prosecuting attorney, [the defense] counsel representing the
  defendant at trial or in a postconviction proceeding, or any court
  personnel except as otherwise provided by this article.
         (b)  Information described by Subsection (a) may be
  disclosed to [on application by] a party in the trial or [on
  application by] a bona fide member of the news media acting in such
  capacity. The [to the court in which the person is serving or did
  serve as a juror. On a showing of good cause, the] court shall
  permit disclosure of the information only after an application for
  the information is made and good cause for receiving the
  information is shown [sought].
         (c)  On a written request, the court shall disclose the
  information described by Subsection (a) that was collected by the
  court, including providing copies of any juror summons, to counsel
  representing the defendant in a postconviction proceeding. A
  showing of good cause is not required for a disclosure under this
  subsection.  This subsection does not authorize the disclosure of
  information described by Subsection (a) that was collected by a
  prosecuting attorney.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a jury selected on or after the effective date of this Act. A
  jury selected before the effective date of this Act is governed by
  the law in effect on the date the jury was selected, and the former
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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