Tex. Const. art. V, § 14 · Article 5. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
JUROR QUALIFICATIONS.
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(a) The legislature shall prescribe by law the qualifications of grand jurors and petit jurors.
(b) The legislature shall enact laws to exclude from serving on juries persons who have been convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Former Sec. 14 repealed Nov. 5, 1985; current Sec. 14 added Nov. 6, 2001.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISION for Sec. 14: see Appendix, Note 3.)
Source of truth
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- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.5.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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