| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 2025; March 17, 2025, read |
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| 3 | + | first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | + | April 23, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; April 23, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 6 | 11 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 12 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 13 | | relating to the execution of a search warrant for taking a blood |
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| 9 | 14 | | specimen from certain persons in certain intoxication offenses. |
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| 10 | 15 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 16 | | SECTION 1. Article 18.067, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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| 12 | 17 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 18 | | Art. 18.067. EXECUTION OF WARRANT FOR BLOOD SPECIMEN IN |
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| 14 | 19 | | INTOXICATION OFFENSE. Notwithstanding any other law, a warrant |
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| 15 | 20 | | issued under Article 18.02(a)(10) to collect a blood specimen from |
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| 16 | 21 | | a person suspected of committing an intoxication offense under |
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| 17 | 22 | | Section 49.04, 49.045, 49.05, 49.06, 49.061, 49.065, 49.07, or |
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| 18 | 23 | | 49.08, Penal Code, may be executed by any peace officer[: |
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| 19 | 24 | | [(1)] in any county adjacent to the county in which the |
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| 20 | 25 | | warrant was issued[; and |
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| 21 | 26 | | [(2) by any law enforcement officer authorized to make |
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| 22 | 27 | | an arrest in the county of execution]. |
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| 23 | 28 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 24 | 29 | | to a search warrant issued on or after the effective date of this |
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| 25 | 30 | | Act. A search warrant issued before the effective date of this Act |
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| 26 | 31 | | is governed by the law in effect on the date the warrant was issued, |
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| 27 | 32 | | and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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| 28 | 33 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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