Bill Text: TX SB1355 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring law enforcement agencies to make certain radio communications available to the public.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB1355 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1355-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | S.B. No. 1355 | |
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| relating to requiring law enforcement agencies to make certain | ||
| radio communications available to the public. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 2.36 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 2.36. DUTY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO MAKE CERTAIN | ||
| RADIO COMMUNICATIONS AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC. (a) In this article: | ||
| (1) "Law enforcement agency" means an agency of the | ||
| state or an agency of a political subdivision of the state | ||
| authorized by law to employ peace officers. | ||
| (2) "Radio communication" means any audio | ||
| communication transmitted by a radio system. | ||
| (3) "Readily accessible to the general public" has the | ||
| meaning assigned by Section 16.02, Penal Code. | ||
| (b) Each law enforcement agency shall make radio | ||
| communications sent by the agency for a law enforcement purpose | ||
| readily accessible to the general public, except for radio | ||
| communications sent by designated units in the agency that perform: | ||
| (1) special operations; or | ||
| (2) the gathering and analyzing of information for the | ||
| purpose of generating intelligence. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Article 2.36, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, as added by this Act, a law enforcement agency is not | ||
| required to comply with that article until January 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
