Bill Text: TX HB2868 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB2868 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2868-Introduced.html
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| By: Carter | H.B. No. 2868 | |
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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 18.065 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 18.065. WARRANT FOR BLOOD SPECIMEN IN INTOXICATION | ||
| OFFENSE MAY BE EXECUTED IN ANY COUNTY. Notwithstanding any other | ||
| law, a warrant issued under Article 18.02(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, | ||
| regardless of the issuing court's jurisdiction. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
