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| 2 | + | (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2025; February 13, 2025, |
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| 3 | + | read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | + | March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, |
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| 5 | + | Nays 0; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | + | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 6 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 11 | | relating to the authority of a peace officer commissioned by the |
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| 9 | 12 | | comptroller to apply for an order authorizing the installation and |
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| 10 | 13 | | use of a mobile tracking device. |
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| 11 | 14 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 15 | | SECTION 1. Article 18B.202(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
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| 13 | 16 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 17 | | (a) A district judge may issue an order for the installation |
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| 15 | 18 | | and use of a mobile tracking device only on the application of: |
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| 16 | 19 | | (1) an authorized peace officer; or |
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| 17 | 20 | | (2) a peace officer commissioned by the comptroller. |
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| 18 | 21 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 19 | 22 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 20 | 23 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 21 | 24 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 22 | 25 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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