Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to a challenge to a grand juror and the recording of certain proceedings relating to the grand jury.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB480 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB480-Comm_Sub.html

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86R21916 AJZ-D
By: Schaefer H.B. No. 480
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 480:
By: Moody C.S.H.B. No. 480

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a challenge to a grand juror and the recording of
certain proceedings relating to the grand jury.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 19, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Article 19.211 to read as follows:
Art. 19.211. RECORDING OF CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO
GRAND JURY. A stenographer or a person operating an electronic
recording device capable of recording sound shall record:
(1) an interrogation of a prospective grand juror that
is conducted under Article 19.22;
(2) a challenge to the array under Article 19.30;
(3) a challenge to a prospective grand juror under
Article 19.31;
(4) an oath administered to grand jurors under Article
19.34; and
(5) the court's instructions to the grand jury under
Article 19.35.
SECTION 2. Article 19.31, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The court shall allow the attorney representing the
state a reasonable opportunity to question a grand juror in order to
determine whether the juror may be challenged under Subsection
(a)(1), (2), (3), (4), (7), or (10).
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
grand jury impaneled on or after the effective date of this Act. A
grand jury impaneled before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the grand jury was
impaneled, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.