Bill Text: TX SB46 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to allowing judges to use juror identification numbers when polling the jury.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB46 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB46-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 46

AN ACT
relating to allowing judges to use juror identification numbers
when polling the jury.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 37.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
Art. 37.05. POLLING THE JURY. (a) The State and [or] the
defendant each [shall] have the right to have the jury polled, which
is done by calling separately the name or identification number of
each juror and asking the juror [him] if the verdict is the juror's
[his]. If all jurors, when asked, answer in the affirmative, the
verdict shall be entered upon the minutes; but if any juror answers
[answer] in the negative, the jury shall retire again to consider
its verdict.
(b) For the purposes of polling the jury in Subsection (a),
the judge may assign each juror an identification number to use in
place of the juror's name.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 46 passed the Senate on
March 1, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 46 passed the House on
May 18, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor