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House Bill 1659 |
House Author: King, Phil |
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Effective: 9-1-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Patrick, Dan |
Previous law made it an affirmative defense to prosecution for the offense of unlawful installation of a tracking device that the person committing the offense was a peace officer who installed the device in the course of a criminal investigation or pursuant to a court order to gather information for a law enforcement agency. House Bill 1659 amends the Penal Code to remove that affirmative defense and to create an exception to the offense for such an officer acting in that capacity.