| 1 | | - | By: Faircloth (Senate Sponsor - Creighton) H.B. No. 1727 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017; |
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| 3 | | - | May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal |
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| 4 | | - | Justice; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: |
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| 5 | | - | Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | H.B. No. 1727 |
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| 10 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 5 | | relating to the issuance of certain search warrants. |
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| 12 | 6 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 7 | | SECTION 1. Article 18.01(i), Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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| 14 | 8 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 9 | | (i) In a county that does not have a municipal court of |
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| 16 | 10 | | record with a courtroom located in that county and a judge [of a |
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| 17 | 11 | | municipal court of record] who is an attorney licensed by the state, |
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| 18 | 12 | | a county court judge who is an attorney licensed by the state, or a |
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| 19 | 13 | | statutory county court judge, any magistrate may issue a search |
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| 20 | 14 | | warrant under [Subdivision (10) or Subdivision (12) of] Article |
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| 21 | 15 | | 18.02(a)(10) or (12) [18.02 of this code]. This subsection is not |
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| 22 | 16 | | applicable to a subsequent search warrant under [Subdivision (10) |
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| 23 | 17 | | of] Article 18.02(a)(10) [18.02 of this code]. |
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| 24 | 18 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 25 | 19 | | to a search warrant issued on or after the effective date of this |
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| 26 | 20 | | Act. A search warrant issued before the effective date of this Act |
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| 27 | 21 | | is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant was issued, |
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| 28 | 22 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 29 | 23 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 24 | + | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 25 | + | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 26 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 1727 was passed by the House on April |
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| 27 | + | 27, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 3 present, not |
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| 28 | + | voting. |
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| 29 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 30 | + | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 31 | + | I certify that H.B. No. 1727 was passed by the Senate on May |
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| 32 | + | 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 33 | + | ______________________________ |
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| 34 | + | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 35 | + | APPROVED: _____________________ |
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| 36 | + | Date |
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| 37 | + | _____________________ |
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| 38 | + | Governor |
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