By: Huffman S.B. No. 3073
(In the Senate - Filed May 13, 2025; May 13, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
May 14, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 1; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in
certain criminal proceedings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 15.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
(h) Not later than 24 hours after the time a magistrate
determines that no probable cause exists to believe that a person
committed the offense for which the person was arrested, the
magistrate shall enter in the record written findings to support
that finding.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
before that date.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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