PRIOR PASSAGE - NONE
PRINTER'S NO. 659
No. 627 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY SALVATORE, ULIANA AND COSTA, MARCH 6, 1997
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, MARCH 6, 1997
A JOINT RESOLUTION
1 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
2 of Pennsylvania, further providing for trial by jury.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby resolves as follows:
5 Section 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of
6 Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
7 That section 6 of Article I be amended to read:
8 § 6. Trial by jury.
9 Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof
10 remain inviolate[.], except as follows:
11 (1) The General Assembly may provide[, however,] by law,
12 that a verdict may be rendered by not less than five-sixths of
13 the jury in any civil case.
14 (2) A person who is ineligible to vote as a consequence of a
15 conviction of a felony or other infamous crime shall be
16 ineligible to serve as a juror.
17 Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
1 Assembly of this proposed constitutional amendment, the
2 Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
3 comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
4 XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
5 required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
6 which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
7 passage of this proposed constitutional amendment.
8 (b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of this
9 proposed constitutional amendment, the Secretary of the
10 Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
11 advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
12 Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
13 advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
14 newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
15 this proposed constitutional amendment. The Secretary of the
16 Commonwealth shall submit this proposed constitutional amendment
17 to the qualified electors of this Commonwealth at the first
18 primary, general or municipal election occurring at least three
19 months after the proposed constitutional amendment is passed by
20 the General Assembly which meets the requirements of and is in
21 conformance with section 1 of Article XI of the Constitution of
22 Pennsylvania.
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