Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a challenge to a grand juror and the recording of certain proceedings relating to the grand jury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB480-Comm_Sub.html
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 |
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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. |