Bill Text: TX SB46 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to allowing judges to use juror identification numbers when polling the jury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB46 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB46-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to allowing judges to use juror identification numbers when polling the jury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB46 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB46-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 46 | |
(In the Senate - Filed November 14, 2016; January 24, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
February 21, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 8, Nays 0; February 21, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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 [ |
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defendant each [ |
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is done by calling separately the name or identification number of | ||
each juror and asking the juror [ |
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verdict shall be entered upon the minutes; but if any juror answers | ||
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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. | ||
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