Title: Jurors

Summary: Requiring that a certain person's voting rights, rather than civil rights, be restored before he or she is qualified to serve as a juror, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to jurors; amending s. 40.013, F.S.; requiring that a certain person s voting rights, rather than civil rights, be restored before he or she is qualified to serve as a juror; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 40.013, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 40.013 Persons disqualified or excused from jury service.  (1) No person who is under prosecution for any crime, or who has been convicted in this state, any federal court, or any other state, territory, or country of bribery, forgery, perjury, larceny, or any other offense that is a felony in this state or which if it had been committed in this state would be a felony, unless restored to voting civil rights, shall be qualified to serve as a juror. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.