Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 89(R)

89(R) SB 1660

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Senate Bill 1660	Effective: 9-1-25
Senate Author: Huffman	Senate Committee: Criminal Justice
House Sponsor: Cook	House Committee: Criminal Jurisprudence

Senate Bill 1660 amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to require a crime laboratory that is charged with the collection, storage, preservation, analysis, or retrieval of toxicological evidence of certain intoxication and alcoholic beverage offenses that is in possession of toxicological evidence to annually do the following:

notify the prosecutor's office in the county in which the alleged offense occurred that the laboratory is in possession of toxicological evidence for an alleged offense that occurred in that county; and
provide to the prosecutor's office the date on which the laboratory received the evidence.

If a prosecutor's office does not provide a written denial of a request to destroy toxicological evidence before a specified deadline and the prescribed retention periods for the evidence have expired, the entity or individual charged with storing the toxicological evidence may destroy that evidence.