Bill Text: TX HB1355 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 1355 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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	86R6425 JSC-F

	By: Button	H.B. No. 1355



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	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 in any county in this state in which the law
	enforcement officer executing the warrant is authorized to make an
	arrest.
	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.