Bill Text: TX HB4906 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications by certain peace officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4906-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications by certain peace officers.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4906 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4906-Engrossed.html
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By: Hefner | H.B. No. 4906 |
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relating to the installation and use of tracking equipment and | ||
access to certain communications by certain peace officers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 18B.001(1), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
is amended to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Authorized peace officer" means: | ||
(A) a sheriff or deputy sheriff; | ||
(B) a constable or deputy constable; | ||
(C) a marshal or police officer of a | ||
municipality; | ||
(D) a ranger or officer commissioned by the | ||
Public Safety Commission or the director of the department; | ||
(E) an investigator of a prosecutor's office; | ||
(F) a law enforcement agent of the Texas | ||
Alcoholic Beverage Commission; | ||
(G) a law enforcement officer commissioned by the | ||
Parks and Wildlife Commission; | ||
(H) an enforcement officer appointed by the | ||
inspector general of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under | ||
Section 493.019, Government Code; | ||
(I) an investigator commissioned by the attorney | ||
general under Section 402.009, Government Code; [ |
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(J) a member of an arson investigating unit | ||
commissioned by a municipality, a county, or the state; or | ||
(K) a peace officer commissioned under Section | ||
37.081 or 51.203, Education Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |