Bill Text: TX HB1355 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the issuance and execution of a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-26 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [HB1355 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1355-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance and execution of a search warrant to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain intoxication offenses.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-26 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [HB1355 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1355-Comm_Sub.html
86R17245 JSC-F | |||
By: Button, Paul, Holland, Bowers, Lang | H.B. No. 1355 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1355: | |||
By: Burns | C.S.H.B. No. 1355 |
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relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood | ||
specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 18.067 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 18.067. EXECUTION OF WARRANT FOR BLOOD SPECIMEN IN | ||
INTOXICATION OFFENSE. Notwithstanding any other law, a warrant | ||
issued under Article 18.02(a)(10) to collect a blood specimen from | ||
a person suspected of committing an intoxication offense under | ||
Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal | ||
Code, may be executed: | ||
(1) in any county adjacent to the county in which the | ||
warrant was issued; and | ||
(2) by any law enforcement officer authorized to make | ||
an arrest in the county of execution. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a search warrant issued on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. A search warrant issued before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant was issued, | ||
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |