73R1316 NSC-D By De La Garza H.B. No. 243 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the execution of a warrant for the arrest of a 1-3 principal of a bail bond by a surety of the bond or a designated 1-4 agent of the surety. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 17.19(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 (e) An arrest warrant issued under this article may be 1-9 executed by the surety, a designated agent of the surety, a peace 1-10 officer, a security officer, or a private investigator licensed in 1-11 this state. 1-12 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-13 to a principal who executes a bail bond on or after the effective 1-14 date of this Act. A principal who executes a bail bond before the 1-15 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-16 bail bond was executed, and the former law is continued in effect 1-17 for this purpose. 1-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.