Bill Text: TX HB2185 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a DNA specimen.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2185 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2185-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2185 | ||
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| relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a DNA | ||
| specimen. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 18.065 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 18.065. EXECUTION OF WARRANT ISSUED BY DISTRICT JUDGE | ||
| FOR DNA SPECIMEN. (a) A warrant issued by the judge of a district | ||
| court under Article 18.02(10) to collect a DNA specimen from a | ||
| person for the purpose of connecting that person to an offense may | ||
| be executed in any county in this state. | ||
| (b) This article does not apply to a warrant issued by a | ||
| justice of the peace, judge, or other magistrate other than a judge | ||
| of a district court. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2185 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 12, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 124, Nays 16, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 2185 on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 132, Nays 8, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2185 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 25, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
