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          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.