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Texas Senate Bill SB46

Texas 2017 - 85th Regular

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1-By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 46
2- (Davis of Dallas)
1+S.B. No. 46
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5- A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
64 AN ACT
75 relating to allowing judges to use juror identification numbers
86 when polling the jury.
97 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
108 SECTION 1. Article 37.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
119 amended to read as follows:
1210 Art. 37.05. POLLING THE JURY. (a) The State and [or] the
1311 defendant each [shall] have the right to have the jury polled, which
1412 is done by calling separately the name or identification number of
1513 each juror and asking the juror [him] if the verdict is the juror's
1614 [his]. If all jurors, when asked, answer in the affirmative, the
1715 verdict shall be entered upon the minutes; but if any juror answers
1816 [answer] in the negative, the jury shall retire again to consider
1917 its verdict.
2018 (b) For the purposes of polling the jury in Subsection (a),
2119 the judge may assign each juror an identification number to use in
2220 place of the juror's name.
2321 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
22+ ______________________________ ______________________________
23+ President of the Senate Speaker of the House
24+ I hereby certify that S.B. No. 46 passed the Senate on
25+ March 1, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
26+ ______________________________
27+ Secretary of the Senate
28+ I hereby certify that S.B. No. 46 passed the House on
29+ May 18, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
30+ present not voting.
31+ ______________________________
32+ Chief Clerk of the House
33+ Approved:
34+ ______________________________
35+ Date
36+ ______________________________
37+ Governor