83R5827 GCB-F
By: Fletcher H.B. No. 1322
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the sealing of applications and orders for the
installation and use of mobile tracking devices in certain law
enforcement investigations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 14, Article 18.21, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (e-1) to read as
follows:
(e-1) The district judge shall seal any documents submitted
to the court under this section, and any order or extension of an
order issued under this section, until the period authorized by the
order and extension expires.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for a mobile tracking device that is submitted on
or after the effective date of this Act. An application for a mobile
tracking device that is submitted before the effective date of this
Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was
submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.