85R12579 GCB-D
By: Price H.B. No. 2458
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a magistrate to issue a search warrant
to collect a blood specimen from a person arrested for certain
intoxication offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 18.01(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
(j) Any magistrate [who is an attorney licensed by this
state] may issue a search warrant under Article 18.02(10) to
collect a blood specimen from a person who:
(1) is arrested for an offense under Section 49.04,
49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.065, 49.07, or 49.08, Penal Code; and
(2) refuses to submit to a breath or blood alcohol
test.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.